If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
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Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand failed a recent privacy and security test from Mozilla. You’re probably driving around in a "privacy nightmare" that may collect information as sensitive as your race, health status, and sexual activity.

Can I please just get a car, instead of a rolling computer / infotainment / privacy nightmare?

No need to exfiltrate the whole video stream: extract features and call them ‘telemetry’.

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