Its convenient for users, and for Ford, but there are two problems.
One is Android security, and the other is Google, itself.
This data is, in turn, used for advertising."
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Its also handy for drivers.
But this convenience comes at a cost.
Your phone is already a trove of data, ready to be mined by unscrupulous app makers.
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The Google Problem
And then theres Google itself.
Like Facebook, Googles ad business runs on the information it can collect about its users.
And a car is a rich vein, with location data, entertainment choices, and so on.
Ford will also beusing Google as its cloud provider.
“Google is not supposed to have access to this information even though its stored in their cloud service.
The problem is that once information is stored, it can be accessed.”
All it takes is an unnoticed change to the software licensing agreement, and your data is fair game.
