Connected Car Data: Wipe Your Info Before You Sell

Your car used to remember a few basics: seat, mirrors, maybe radio presets. Tie in agentic AI and a cloud account and it starts to remember your life. It learns your routine gym nights, the clinic across town, the weekend cabin, the kid’s school run, even the kind of music that calms you in traffic. That profile can follow you from one vehicle to the next once everything is synced through the brand’s servers.

Privacy researchers have already thrown a flag on modern connected cars. Mozilla’s...