Auto Care CEO Bill Hanvey NY Times Op-Ed on Data Privacy Cautions Your Car Knows When You Gain Weight

Commentary published by The New York Times explores vehicle data collection and consumer privacy.

As part of the Auto Care Association’s continued efforts to ensure a consumer’s right to access their car data, Bill Hanvey, president and CEO of Auto Care Association, penned an op-ed published in the New York Times exploring the significant issues surrounding data collection and ownership in modern cars.

Key points of Hanvey’s argument include:

• “Cars…know how fast we drive, where we live, how many children we have — even financial information. Connect a phone to a car, and it knows who we call and who