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title: "‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and--n1u8vkcrz
source_url: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2023-09-09T16:41:41.443Z
updated: 2024-01-27T02:19:24.039Z
tags: ["automotive", "law", "mozilla", "privacy"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 15
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 15 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Mozilla Foundation - ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla - Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota - Flunks Privacy Test. Mozilla’s latest edition of *PNI reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@vlokchain** · 3 upvotes

> This might be the norm now but the time will come where we will be in direct control of how much data others are allowed to collect on us. As long as you don’t live in the US ofc.

**@randy** · 1 upvotes

> Good on Mozilla for doing this. Shame on these car makers… gonna have a fun time buying a new car; all of my favorites are prime offenders according to this…

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