From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.

As modern cars become ever more sophisticated pieces of technology, they've begun

sharing information about their drivers, sometimes with unnerving consequences. Today, my colleague Kashmir Heaux

explains what our cars now know

and what this means for our lives. It's Monday, March 18th.

It's Monday, March 18th. So Kashmir, you're a data and technology reporter and you usually come on the show to tell us some very frightening new way that technology is going to affect our lives.

This time though you're coming on the show to talk about cars.

Why cars?

Well, like many Americans, during the pandemic, I got a new car. And I hadn't

had a car since 1999 when I was in high school and cars have changed a lot.

They've gotten much better, they're more sophisticated.

I mean, they're basically computers on wheels.

But I know that when you connect things to the internet, it has the ability to record

data about you, watch you, potentially spy on you if you don't know what kind of data is being

collected and sent out.

So you're sitting in this new car looking around thinking,

okay, this stuff is probably spying on me.

Exactly.

And I wondered what kind of data are cars collecting now and where are they sending it,

who's getting it. I just wanted to know who's tapping into these cars.

Okay, over here, yeah.

And this reporting led me to a woman named Christine.

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