marketing purposes.” Your personal preferences, personality characteristics, psychological patterns, general behaviour, intelligence level, and many more are all up for grabs with Nissan’ s privacy policy.
News. com. au found that“ Kia, Hyundai, and Tesla were the worst offenders when it came to protecting the privacy of their customers.” These manufacturers were revealed to be sharing consumers’“ voice recognition data with third parties, along with other information.”
Hyundai and Kia have complimentary apps for when you purchase their cars. These are Bluelink and Kia Connect, respectively. These apps link your car directly to your smartphone. You can access your car’ s doors, air conditioning, diagnostics, and location with a few taps of your fingers. This feature may seem convenient at first, but they do raise alarms about data protection. Though, both companies have stated that these apps are completely optional, and that data sent to third parties are used for“ live traffic updates.”
While brands like Nissan, Hyundai, and Kia are collecting private information, customers are none the wiser.“ Most [ car brands ]( 92 %) give drivers little to no control over their personal data,” Mozilla wrote in an article. Mozilla found that only two car brands out of the 25 they reviewed give customers the option to delete their stored data— Renault and Dacia. Unfortunately for those not living in Europe, Mozilla implies that since Renault and Dacia are based there, they could just be complying to the EU’ s General Data Protection Regulation( GDPR).
CURRENT LAWS
According to Katharine Kemp, a professor from the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Law and Justice, Australia’ s privacy laws are badly in need of reform. According to her article,
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