If you had a suspicion your modern car is spying on you, you’re probably right. Vehicles these days are connected to the Internet of Things, able to feed data back to the cloud in real time. Once it’s there, what happens next may not be something you explicitly agreed to. Now the tide is starting…
that $220M is pennies compared to what they got from selling that data
General Motors reported a net income attributable to stockholders of $2.7 billion for the year 2025, which was a significant decline from $6 billion in 2024.
That doesn’t address his point. Just because they suck in every other part of their business doesn’t mean they failed to make lots of money off your data.
yep just an information sales tax 😂 basically another government endorsed trade channel
Just one more reason to never buy garbage american cars. I learned my lesson after my first. Never trust american companies, ever.
Serious question, what new car can I buy that won’t spy on me and send all my data to the manufacturer? I’ll be in the market for a new car in a couple of years, and I’ve had a hard time finding anything where this wasn’t an issue.
a car that’s not meant to be sold anywhere in the western world. there’s too much profit in collecting and sell all of your data for any corporation to pass up – just like w phones.
I genuinely don’t know. I drive a 2017 Japanese car that I don’t believe collects telemetry or data of any kind. I plan to drive this car until the wheels fall off.
Other companies from other countries do this as well. You shouldn’t trust any car maker.
I only want my data extracted by honorable japanese capitalists, not american pig capitalist
I prefer the VW. Yeah, they are clearly trying to collect everything they can, but I think their software corrupts the data. I mean something is happening that they can’t seem to make money off anything. Waiting until the battery warrenty is up to mess with anything that could take it off their grid.
That’s the spirit!
I’d much rather have my info taken by a foreign company than an american one.
I’d much rather have my info taken by neither a US-American one, nor another foreign one. I want my info to be taken exclusively by Swiss bankers! Their extortion letters look better than the others’.
