Connected cars and those equipped with cutting-edge\ntechnologies are leading the market today. Everything from back-up cameras with\nsensors to GPS systems that know your route home and can open the garage as\nsoon as you enter your driveway – are\nall taking our in-car experiences to the next level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What happens though, when the car you\u2019ve relied on to not\nonly get you to and from work but also to dial phone calls for you while you\nsit in traffic or store your favorite song line-up, is totaled in an accident\nor sold and no longer yours? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Connected cars are, in fact, some of the most targeted\nvehicles for a security breach. The Upstream Security Automotive Cybersecurity\nReport 2019, found<\/a>\na six-fold increase in automotive cyber-attacks from 2010 \u2013 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019ve ever sat at the car wash and tried to make a phone\ncall with your device in the waiting room only to find out the speaker in your\ncar was broadcasting the call in the garage, then you know how important paying\nattention to privacy is with these new high-tech features in your vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, when a car is totaled in an accident, a tow truck\nwill immediately take it away from the scene and drive it to a dedicated lot.\nHere it will either remain for days until you can take it out or for the\ninsurance to assess the damage. Sometimes those cars are even sold off for\nsalvage or put in auctions and could end up in the hands of anyone. Hopefully, there are protocols to reset the\ncar to factory defaults so that your information is no longer stored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n