Your car is spying on you: And guess where much of your most personal information ends up

All car companies prevent car owners from accessing or deleting the personal data collected by their car's computer chips while more than half sell your data to third parties, or give it away for free

Yesterday I reported how a major gun safe manufacturer, Liberty Safe, is turning over personal access codes of its customers to the FBI upon request.

Big banks are also eager to turn over your personal account information to the government, often without so much as a search warrant. Bank of America did this to its customers who attended the J6 protests.

When big business cooperates with big government to oppress the people, that’s called fascism.

Today, we have another troubling example of this, as it relates to the auto industry.

Vehicle manufacturers are now tracking and storing your personal data inside the car’s internal computers. Shockingly, intensely private information, things like your sexual activity and sexual orientation, and even your genetic characteristics, are vacuumed up and often sold to the highest bidder.

The Winepress News cited popular YouTuber Louis Rossmann, who highlighted how modern vehicles, those manufactured roughly over the last 10 to 12 years, are becoming more and more invasive in what they are collecting on drivers and passengers.

Vehicle owners do not have direct access to the internal data collected by their cars. Only the dealer and the manufacturer have access to this often very personal data.

It didn’t have to be this way. There was a brief debate years ago on who should have access to this information, the owners and private mechanics, or just the manufacturers and dealers. Those of us who said we the people (the consumer) and our private mechanics should have access to our own vehicles’ data got drowned out by a $25 million Madison Avenue ad campaign. In short, we lost the debate.

Last month the Mozilla Foundation, a private third-party inspector and privacy advocate, reviewed the privacy policies of 25 major car brands and found some shocking claims over your data buried in the deepest recesses of those policies.

One of the worst was Nissan. Here’s what Mozilla wrote about Nissan’s privacy policy:

“We’re not going to mince words here: THEY STINK AT PRIVACY! They are probably the worst car company we reviewed and that says something because all car companies are really bad at privacy.”

Nissan explicitly states in its Privacy Policy page that:

“Sensitive personal information, including driver’s license number, national or state identification number, citizenship status, immigration status, race, national origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sexual activity, precise geolocation, health diagnosis data, and genetic information.”

Mozilla pointed out that if Nissan is doing this then it is highly likely other car brands are doing the same thing, as other companies often use very broad statements such as “for example,” “might include” and “as well as other information.”

In other words, Nissan may not necessarily be the worst. It might just be the most honest about what type of information it is collecting on drivers.

Mozilla recently published a report titled “Privacy Not Included,” which states that the automobile industry is easily the worst category they have reviewed for privacy. They reviewed 25 of the most popular vehicle brands and all of them ranked at the bottom of the list.

“Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,” the report concluded.

Mozilla found that:

• 84 percent of car brands share and sell the personal data they collect, with 56 percent of them admitting that they can sell this data directly to the government or police. Often all it takes is an “informal request” for them to turn your data over to the government. No search warrant or criminal charges required.

• 92 percent of car brands do not allow customers to delete this data. The only exceptions were Renault and Dacia, both of which are owned by the same parent company and are available only in Europe. This is no coincidence since the E.U. has much more strict privacy laws than either the U.S. or Canada.

• Car companies, in their long-winded and convolluted privacy policies, give an “illusion” of consent, when in practical terms you have no choice but to let them collect and sell your data. Tesla, for instance, asks your permission but then warns that if you don’t give it, you car could malfunction. Subaru’s privacy policy says that even passengers of a car that uses connected services have “consented” to allow them to use -- and maybe even sell -- their personal information just by being inside the vehicle.

Mozilla places Nissan, Hyundai/Kia and Tesla at the bottom of the list. It also noted that six car companies say they can collect your “genetic information” or “genetic characteristics.”

This is what the World Economic Forum means when it says that, by the year 2030, you will “own nothing and be happy.” You may hold the title to your car. You may have receipts showing that you own your refrigerator, dishwasher and other appliances. But do you really own these products if they are outfitted with computer chips feeding your personal information back to the manufacturer, which then turns around and sells it to the government and other third-parties?

If you don’t control the thing you own, then you don’t fully own it.

This is what the WEF was trying to tell us when they put out that controversial video a few years ago, warning that once the world fully adopts the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development goals, you will “own nothing, you will have no privacy, but you will learn to like it.”

Schwab and others refer to this march toward a technocratic surveillance state as the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”

Some of us will never learn to like it. And that’s why they hate us and want to eliminate large portions of the disobedient ones who refuse to worship at the altar of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is beginning to look a lot like the Fourth Reich.