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You Can’t Hide from Your Ride 0

You know that nice new car you just got, the one with the built-in Facebook and all those neat monitoring systems?

MidAtlantic AAA’s Ronald Kosh reports that it may be phoning home without your having been informed of it in any way. A snippet:

A recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on automobile telematics systems found that location-based data are being collected, stored, and shared. It also questioned whether consumers were aware of or in agreement with all the purposes for which their data were being used. This is similar to companies that sell their mailing lists or Internet companies that track the online activity of visitors. The GAO also noted that location data can be used to infer other sensitive information about individuals, such as their religious affiliation or political activities.

Folks clutch their pearls about the NSA (with some justification), while, unnoticed, corporations make the NSA look like pikers.

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