What Personal Data Do Car Infotainment Centers Store?
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Your smart phone can sync your personal data, contacts, text messages, emails and GPS locations with your owned, leased or rented car stereo or infotainment system.
How can you protect yourself? If you’re thinking of renting, trading in or selling a car with a smart radio system that uses Bluetooth or a cable to synch to your phone, make sure your personal information doesn’t remain embedded and available for identity theft after you have turned in your car. |
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How Personal Data is Used in Identity Theft
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Understanding the information that your smart phone shares with your car’s stereo computer system can help you protect yourself.
The motivation for hacking a car is to cause harm. The objective is clear: steal information that can hurt you while benefiting the thief. The data can be used immediately or resold. The repercussions are long-lasting and can damage your credit rating permanently. |
