Inspired by reading Mozillas article “‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test“, I took a look at Smart’s privacy statement.
All new cars, have connected services, apps etc. and it could be a good idea to read the fine print, about what they do with all the data they collect about you, as well as your passengers.
So without analyzing too much, what is in smart’s privacy statement?
Data they collect:
The following is copied from their statement:
- Vehicle charging information
- Parking brake status
- Cruising range
- Alarm status
- Maintenance status
- Seat belt status
- Collision status
- Vehicle travel time
- Energy consumption
- Vehicle identification number (VIN)
- Vehicle speed
- Car location
- Vehicle direction
- Usage mode
- Car mode
- Much as mileage
- Battery voltage
- Door and flap status/position/lock status
- The window status/ warning/ position
- Vehicle alarm status
- Sunroof open status
- Engine status
- Key status
- Average consumption
- Tyre pressure
- Travel time
- Charging time
- Air conditioning preheating
- Battery pre-temperature
- User ID
- Energy consumption
- Electricity consumption
- GPS-, camera- and microphone usage information
Who is your data shared with?
“When using service providers and sharing data with third parties, personal data may be transferred to recipients in countries outside the UK, EU and EEA (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and processed there, in particular in China, USA and India.
For example, we must share data with the manufacturer smart Automobile Co. Ltd, No. 859, Binhai 4th Rd, Hangzhou Bay New District, Ningbo, Zhejiang ProFINce, P. R. China, including, where applicable, the manufacturer’s service providers, as necessary to process product liability and warranty claims.”
What do YOU think?
Personally I think it’s a long list of information that they gather, and I’d like to know what is shared with who.
If you have read Mozillas artikle (link at the top of the page), then you can see that this is pretty standard. But does that make it OK?
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