5 ON YOUR SIDE: Car data sharing

Last year, a Consumer Reports investigation revealed your car may be collecting data about how you drive. Now, a new study using Consumer Reports’ own vehicles shows where some of that data is going, and you might be surprised how it could be connected back to you.

Your car is a critical part of your everyday life. But unbeknownst to you, your car and its connected apps may be double agents, spying on you and sending what they learn to some of the world’s biggest tech companies.

A team of researchers at Northeastern University actually came up to CR’s auto test center in Connecticut and tested all of the data and signals that emanate from your vehicle. Among the Top recipients: Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft. It can create a really detailed dossier about who you are. And that can inform banks, ...