Modern GPS-Equipped Cars Track Your Every Move, And The Data Can't Be Erased

Researchers extracted lifetime GPS data from scrapped BYD Seal, revealing owner's home, work, and crash location through stored telematics data.

Modern GPS-Equipped Cars Track Your Every Move, And The Data Can't Be Erased

It's not really a surprise that your vehicle is tracking you. Connected cars collect your exact location, your driving speeds, and plenty of other data about you. But once that data is sent to the manufacturer via the cloud, it's safe from prying hands, right? A new teardown of a vehicle's computer shows that's not the case. Your car stores that data, in some cases forever.

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