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Carmakers fail privacy test, give owners little or no control on personal data they collect

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( ) -q-29- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “assessed since 2017.”

Cars are getting an “F” in data privacy.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.

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VERBATIM: A new study by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation finds most major brands admit they may be selling your personal data, with half saying they will share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order. What’s more, nearly all the 25 brands give drivers little or no control over the data they collect. The study found cars scored worst for privacy among more than a dozen product categories, including fitness trackers and smart speakers, that Mozilla has assessed since 2017.

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