Your car is selling where you drive.

Ψ AURAVISION · FIELD BRIEF PRIVACY INTELLIGENCE Your car is selling your every move. A Northeastern University and Consumer Reports study of 21 vehicles across 19 brands found that nearly every automaker sends driver data to outside companies — precise GPS for every trip, braking and acceleration, even in-cabin camera footage. In 2026 the FTC found GM sold geolocation from millions of cars without proper consent. 19 brandsnearly all shared driver datamillionsof cars' geolocation sold (GM/FTC)every tripprecise GPS collected What happenedNortheastern and Consumer Reports tested 21 vehicles from 19 brands; nearly all transmitted driver data to third parties, including some of the world's largest ad companies. Collected data spans precise GPS per trip, speed/braking/acceleration, seatbelt use, infotainment usage, seat-sensor biometrics, and in-cabin camera footage. In 2026 the FTC's order against GM/OnStar found it collected and sold precise geolocation and driving behavior from millions of vehicles without adequate consent — data that flows on to banks, insurers, and lenders. Why it mattersYour car knows where you sleep, work, worship, and shop — and it's selling that map. You can't opt a modern car out of the internet; the data pipe is wired in at the factory, and the buyer might be your insurer. It knows everywhere you goPrecise GPS for every trip, routed to data brokers.Even the cabin cameraIn-car footage and seat-sensor biometrics are in scope.Sold to your insurerDriving data becomes your risk profile — and your rate. The only device that can't sell your life is one that was never listening out. The principleThe rule people who run infrastructure live by: never connect the things you care about to the internet. If a product can phone home, assume it does — and assume someone's buying. Aura's answerIntelligence that doesn't log your life.Aura runs entirely on-device — no telemetry pipe, no broker feed, no profile built from your day. It hears only you, and nothing it hears leaves the room. The product isn't the data; the product is the device. Nothing leaves the room. Know someone who should see this? Send it to them.