We always hear people talk about how our phones are tracking us.

Maybe they're listening in on our conversations, or maybe they're sending our location to Bill Gates.

And usually there's very little truth to these.

But there's at least one thing your phone actually is doing

that almost nobody knows about.

It's spying on how you drive. That's coming up right now on

Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

How your driving is being tracked.

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There's always a certain amount of paranoia about what our phones might be tracking about us

and who they might be sending that information to.

Some we know for a fact and some we only suspect and some has been disproven.

But in that middle ground where most of us have no real idea is where we find both misinformation and justification for some of that

paranoia. One of these questions concerns our driving habits.

Who might be tracking our phones to learn about how and where and when we drive?

And what might that be collected for?

Today we're going to scratch at least some of that surface.

Complicating this particular question is the fact that a lot of our cars link pretty tightly

with our phones via either Apple Carplay or Android Auto.

And even for those of us who don't connect our phones,

more and more of our cars are running natively on those operating systems.

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