Is Your Car Collecting More Than Mileage?
Oct 31, 2025
This week, we explore the privacy risks of connected cars, looking at what data is collected, how it’s handled, and what technologies like differential privacy could do to protect it.
One Article
Your car might be connecting far more than mileage, from in-cabin audio to driving habits. This piece explores the growing privacy and security risks in connected vehicles, how that data is being used, and why governance is lagging behind the tech.
One Review
Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included project looks at how cars handle your data. Many collect biometrics, location, and driving patterns. Privacy safeguards are often vague and inconsistent, raising serious questions about how that data is used and protected.
One Infographic
Source: Mozilla
One YouTube Video
In this video, Marc Rogers, a Head of Security at DEF CON, walks through how he ethically hacked a Tesla model S and what the experience revealed about hardware security, over-the-air updates, and the unique risks of connected cars.
One Research Paper
This paper maps real-world automotive use cases to privacy-enhancing technologies, exploring how tools like differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and federated learning can address specific data protection challenges.
