Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
Northeastern and Consumer Reports found most tested connected cars share data with third parties.
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6 articles · newest firstConnected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform
Consumer Reports and Northeastern found connected cars share driving data with insurers, brokers, and agencies.
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Some car apps are slipping owners’ data to big tech companies
Researchers found car apps sending VINs, emails, and location to advertising and analytics firms.
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Automakers routinely share personally identifiable connected-car data with third parties, report says
Researchers say most automakers share connected-car personal data with advertisers and brokers.
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Your car’s app could be telling Big Tech who you are and where you go
Northeastern and Consumer Reports found 19 of 21 cars and 7 of 30 companion apps send data to advertising and tracking domains.
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Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
METR analysis finds AI accelerating cyber vulnerability discovery, while SPADE self-play environment generation improves Qwen3 reasoning benchmark scores at 30B scale.
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