The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars

Modern cars are transforming into surveillance machines, and this exposé reveals how they mine driver data for advertising profit—racking up 84 upvotes and 57 comments. It outperforms #7's 83-point vulnerability by a single vote, due to its visceral privacy angle. Examples include vehicles collecting biometrics like heart rate and eye tracking, with one automaker sharing anonymized data with 20+ ad partners per trip. The piece notes that this ad infrastructure generates $150 per vehicle annually, a figure 3x higher than the average automotive subscription service.