Your input matters! Don't let the insurance industry get your personal data.

Today, most new vehicles continuously collect data — your speed, your braking, your location, how you interact with the car’s systems, and in some cases your eye movements and biometric patterns.

 This isn’t a future concern. It’s happening right now.

And it’s about to expand even further.

Because of Section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — passed in 2021 with broad bipartisan support — every new passenger vehicle sold in the United States must include technology that monitors driver behavior and, in some cases, can stop you from operating your own car by 2027. This isn’t a partisan issue. Both parties voted for it. There is no federal opt‑out. And there is no federal law that limits what happens to the data once it’s collected.

We didn’t agree to this. We weren’t asked.

What makes this even more alarming is what the law doesn’t say. It doesn’t set rules for how automakers can use this data, how long they can keep it, or who they can share it with. And we already know what happens without guardrails. General Motors was caught sharing detailed driving data with insurance companies without proper consent.

 The FTC stepped in — but only for GM. Every other automaker continues operating without clear restrictions.

If insurers get this data, they can raise your premiums or deny coverage. If data brokers get it, it becomes another tool to target and manipulate consumers. This isn’t hypothetical. It’s already happening, and ordinary Americans are the ones paying the price.

Congress created this problem. Congress and the White House must fix it.

To be fair, some of these technologies have real safety benefits. Impaired driving kills thousands of people every year, and tools that prevent those deaths matter. But safety cannot come at the cost of unchecked surveillance. Whether you support the safety goals or not, every American deserves to know what data is being collected, who it’s being shared with, and to have real protections against that data being used to harm them financially. Safety and privacy are not opposites — we can have both, but only if Congress requires it.

The good news: a solution already exists. The Auto Data Privacy and Autonomy Act has been introduced in both the House and Senate with bipartisan support. In the House, it’s led by Rep. Eric Burlison (R‑MO) and cosponsored by Rep. Tim Burchett (R‑TN). In the Senate, it’s led by Sen. Mike Lee (R‑UT) and cosponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D‑OR). This bill would finally put limits on how vehicle data is collected, shared, and sold — and give Americans meaningful control over their own information. It needs public support to move.

We are calling on Congress and the White House to:

1. Pass federal legislation that sets clear limits on what vehicle data can be collected, how long it can be kept, and who it can be shared with or sold to.  
2. Require explicit, informed opt‑in consent — not buried fine print — before any vehicle data is collected or transmitted.  
3. Ban the sale or sharing of this data with insurance companies, data brokers, and advertisers without express authorization.  
4. Enforce these rules with real penalties for violations.

Americans deserve to drive without being monitored, profiled, or financially punished by systems installed in their vehicles without their knowledge or genuine consent.

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