This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, October 24th, 2023.

I'm Caleb Brown. Every year new cars are equipped with new ways to collect data about

you, your driving, and those around you.

That data has value for safety and future car features, but you can be sure that if it's a big pile

of data, the government wants it.

Cato's Jennifer Huddleston discusses new tech, privacy, and the long-standing third-party doctrine.

How much control should we reasonably expect over the automobiles that we own?

What we're seeing is that all of our devices are becoming more connected in this day and age.

And that's had many benefits for us the ability to customize

certain features the ability to do things with just our voice or with just a touch

or to connect various devices that in the past weren't connected.

At the same time, some people have concerns about the privacy that they may have and what types of data a device may be using.

So they may, you know, expect a microwave to know how frequently it's being used or what type of food they put in it, but they may or may not

expect it to know what color shirt they were wearing, for example. What we're seeing is as cars

become more connected, there have been a lot of exciting applications for that,

but there have also been some concerns from some consumers about what type of data those cars are gathering, who that data has been shared with, and not

only who that data has been shared with in the sense of consumers trying to make choices

between different companies, but also some concerns about who that data is

potentially being shared with in terms of Fourth Amendment rights and is that data being

shared with certain government entities.

So there have been some pieces of controversy relating to like ring doorbells and the degree to

which data gathered by those doorbells is just being summarily handed off to police.

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