The Government is Tracking You Through Your Vehicle as You Drive if You Have a Newer Vehicle Connected to the Internet

I have been warning our readers for the past few years that the Government has the ability to track you through your vehicle if you own a later-model vehicle that is connected to the Internet. But today, we now know that this is not just a theory, but that it actually has been happening, as two U.S. Senators have discovered that eight automakers will give up users' location data to police without requiring a court-issued warrant. We already knew that these car companies tracked and stored this data, as last September I published a report published by the Mozilla Foundation on every brand of car sold in the U.S. and reported: "All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label — making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed." They concluded that your car spies on you more than your cell phone and smart home devices. This announcement by the Senators follows other recent announcements that the government has passed legislation that new cars in the future must be outfitted with a "kill" switch that allows law enforcement to disable your vehicle.