Car companies are sneakily selling your driving data
Car companies are tracking drivers’ data and selling it to third-party data brokers — leaving their customers to suffer the consequences.
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Car companies are tracking drivers’ data and selling it to third-party data brokers — leaving their customers to suffer the consequences.
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Once a toy has an internet connection, it suddenly has the capability to 1) gather a lot of information and 2) send it somewhere.
Advertising firms are collecting data on our children with the help of apps designed to hold their attention using the same techniques as slot machines.
When we use free websites and apps, there's often cookies and other tracking technologies in the background harvesting huge amounts of data about who we are and what we do online. Virtually no laws rein in the companies behind these cookies, nor how they use and sell the info they collect.
Consumer Watchdog, PIRG
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program, PIRG