
They say that the cars of tomorrow will be like "smartphones on wheels," and when it comes to modern electric vehicles in particular, many of them are already there. But that also means that cars are as adept at collecting your personal data as any of your favorite gadgets—and not necessarily without any guardrails around where that data goes. Now, thanks in large part to reporting by the New York Times, two U.S. senators are urging the government to crack down on how car data gets collected and sold.