Ep. 172: Privacy for Cars - There’s a Lot More Road to Go

Andrea Amico and Brett Jones are today's guests on the Cyber Security Matters podcast, hosted by Dominic Vogel and Christian Redshaw.    Andrea Amico is the founder and CEO of Privacy4Cars.  Brett Jones is the President of HeyAuto and Vivid Theory.     Privacy4Cars app was created by Andrea to intuitively and rapidly delete Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from vehicles while building a compliance log to meet privacy regulations.  HeyAuto is Canada’s fastest growing car marketplace that has partnered with Privacy4Cars to bring this technology to Canada’s automotive retail industry.   In this episode, we will cover: How our vehicles acquire and store our personal data through internal sensors and create a “mini copy” of our connected smart devices Examples of what kind of data is being captured by the vehicles we drive: such as home address, garage door codes, text messages, contact lists, etc. The need for clear industry standards and processes around wiping private data from used cars How the vehicle retail industry still has a lot more road to go in when it comes to protecting people’s private data that is stored in vehicles