Dr. Steven Novella

And so do they.

Look at the porn he's looking at on his phone.

You're giving all this data to your car company, which doesn't have the protections in place.

Not that they're so great with your phone, but people are more aware of it.

And there's like nothing to keep them from selling it to third party.

They can package that information and sell it to third parties.

For the car driving, there's a legitimate layer of safety and fairness.

Yeah, but do you really think that's why or do you think it's because they want to make more money?

No, that's the justification.

But it's a legitimate justification.

And there are legitimate conveniences too.

Convenience is legitimate.

Absolutely.

But are you fully aware of what you are giving away when you sync your phone?

I can't make a phone call while I'm driving or receive a phone call while I'm driving if I don't sync my phone with my car.

because it's you're breaking the law yeah you're breaking the law I need to I need the hands free and I get hands free through the car but doing so gives the car access to all my phone data which they can sell and then the funny thing is there are people live today I mean like Jay your kids even people who are like adults today who are listening to this going yeah it's always been like that like what's the alternative like you know they have never lived in a world where this was not the case here's another layer well they don't have it

option here's another layer let's say the cops are trying to get a warrant to get information about you right and they can't do it they cannot justify the war they all right who cares I'm just gonna buy the data from their car company and they can do that right so they can get around Wow

These warrants that are there to protect your privacy, protect your civil rights by just buying third-party data, which is freely available.

Not freely.

It's for a price.