{"id":1186145,"date":"2022-08-22T03:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T03:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/22\/your-car-may-be-spying-on-you-see-how\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T03:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T03:59:01","slug":"your-car-may-be-spying-on-you-see-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/22\/your-car-may-be-spying-on-you-see-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Car May Be Spying On You, See How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Our cars spy on us, and we\u2019re not referring only to smart, self-driving models; we mean regular cars. They might not be smart, but they aren\u2019t dumb, either. Almost every vehicle produced today contains an event data recorder (EDR).<\/p>\n<p>The EDR records information about the vehicle,  its location, average speed, condition of the road, and the preferred route of its owner. This information is automatically sent back to the automaker.<\/p>\n<p>Automakers say they use this data to study the behavior of their vehicles during accidents and offer improvement. This information is also shared with law enforcement to detect the cause of accidents. However, this does not mean automakers won\u2019t use this information for other things.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/e52a6e12c1a1439391b590d2e1610e52\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For one, we don\u2019t even know how much information carmakers gather from the cars. We don\u2019t know who owns the information, either. Is it the car owner or the maker?<\/p>\n<p>Also, most car owners don\u2019t even know they are being tracked. Automakers and salespeople aren\u2019t very keen on revealing this information, either. So the spying continues.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: barbaraagyeman006 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nEDR<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cars spy on us, and we\u2019re not referring only to smart, self-driving models; we mean regular cars. They might not be smart, but they aren\u2019t dumb, either. Almost every vehicle produced today contains an event data recorder (EDR). The EDR records information about the vehicle, its location, average speed, condition of the road, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[370,24028],"class_list":["post-1186145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-car","tag-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}