Forum: Car Privacy

This Forum featured an all-star panel of car and privacy experts, sharing privacy tips and discussing safeguards to protect our driving data. The panel included Kelly Funkhouser, Associate Director for Vehicle Technology at Consumer Reports, Adonne Washington, Policy Counsel, Mobility, Location & Data at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), and Thorin Klosowski, Security and Privacy Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

We dropped several resources to learn more about what kinds of data our vehicle collects and shares, how you can try to limit these practices, and what action you can take to pressure regulators to hold automakers accountable for any unfair and deceptive practices. Here are a list of all the links that were mentioned during the event:

Reports, Investigations, and Announcements

The Mozilla Foundation car privacy policy report
The FPF report explaining how safeguarding driver privacy and data protection will be critical to ensuring widespread acceptance of new safety technology in vehicles
- The FPF Vehicle Infographic
The NY Time Investigation revealing that some automakers share consumer driving data with data brokers, that then sell it to car insurance companies
The announcement (hot off the presses!) that the Federal Trade Commission will be monitoring automakers’ data collection and sales activities