By not giving consumers control over performance and maintenance data collected by their cars, manufacturers can limit where cars are repaired and serviced
Vehicles collect a lot of unusual data. But who owns it? — Mr. Hanvey is president and chief executive officer of the Auto Care Association. Tweets: @privacyproject , @nytimes , and @jathansadowski Tweets: @privacyproject : Your driving habits — how fast you drive, how hard you brake, whether you always use your seatbelt — could be valuable to insurance companies. But while you can turn off location data on your phone, there's no opt-out feature for your car. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : In Opinion Bill Hanvey writes, “Connect a phone to a car, and it knows who we call and who we text. But who owns and, ultimately, controls that data? And what are carmakers doing with it? The issue of ownership is murky.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Jathan Sadowski / @jathansadowski : “Modern cars collect as much as 25 gigabytes of data per hour and it's about much more than performance and maintenance.” It gets pretty personal. And that data is extremely valuable to manufacturers—and to third-parties buying the data like insurers. https://www.nytimes.com/...