If you drive a car built sometime in the past few years, it's almost certainly tracking your location. Modern vehicles function less like cars and more like computers on wheels these days, collecting data through GPS navigation, connected services, telematics systems and manufacturer apps.
While it all started innocently enough, with manufacturers using the collected data to understand how the cars were being driven, reasons behind crashes and so on and so forth, that data has become a source of income for them. The data can be shared with insurers, marketing companies and data brokers, sometimes without explicit driver consent.
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