Hate To Break It To You, But Your Car Likely Has A Black Box ‘Spying’ On You Already
April 19th, 2012Via: Forbes:
The big news in the automotive privacy world this week is that Congress is on the verge of passing a transportation bill that will make “big brother” black boxes mandatory in all cars.
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But the truth of the matter is that most Americans already have black boxes in their cars. They’ve been around since 1996, are found in at least 60 million vehicles, and are a feature of 85% of new cars every year.
I owned a ’90 Nissan for over 16 years, but I finally broke down and bought one of these new spy machines… sigh. Maybe I should have gotten a ’95 something.