Here is an interesting article on automotive privacy
Your car may be invading your privacy
If guess what alot of people need to understand is that data is worth money to businesses, a lot of money. Data is also valuable to governments. If there is potential profit to be made by utilizing data, a business will do exactly that. Regarding my previous post the question that comes up to me is how much data can potentially be made available to a business by using the teleaid or similar system? A huge amount. How much is the data worth? A great deal to insurance companies, the automakers, advertisers, governments, the police, etc etc etc.
The devices below can and do track you
-Almost all gps devices, portable or auto. the data is worth a fortune. In fact TomTom got caught selling user gps data to a police force in another country
-Your smart phone and even your un smart phone
-Of course everything you do on your computer
-Pretty much any digital device at all that can connect to a network (LAN, wireless, wifi, bluetooth, etc)
Analog phones still exist, in fact there are hundreds of thousands of them in cars and other machines. Don't think there is any profit to be made by tracking cars with analog phone? Of course there is. Just because analog phones are not commonly available does not mean there are no analog towers.
Soon backup cameras will be required in all cars. Thats great. I can also see the camera being used to record data that would be extremely valuable and profitable. I am sure the governments and private businesses cannot wait to have real time video feeds from any car on the road.
Its called Big Data and it is worth billions of dollars a year. If a person is dumb enough to think that these devices do not track you, then no amount of discussion is going to help you comprehend what does in fact happen, so I don't usually bother.