Is your connected car spying on you?
As our cars become more connected, do they pose more of a threat to our privacy?
- 5 November 2014
- Business
Modern cars are morphing into mobile data centres - connected, clever and packed full of sensors.
But are they also becoming spies in our drives?
As they record almost every aspect of our journeys and driving behaviour, interacting with our smartphone apps and sat-nav systems, who will own all the data they generate, how will it be used, and will our privacy inevitably be compromised?
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Telematics "black boxes" from insurance companies and related smartphone apps can already measure how aggressively we accelerate and the G-forces we generate hurtling too fast round corners.
This monitoring technology is even becoming sophisticated enough to recognise different drivers based on their signature driving styles.
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