These major car companies are accused of harvesting and exploiting customer data
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As experts push to strengthen Australia's privacy laws, many car makers are gathering data and potentially selling it to third parties.

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No. The small print and you giving them the right to do so is you purchasing the car. There are different ways to track you and just like Amazon or Apple tracking you, their so-called options to opt-out are questionable or limited at best.

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