Electric vehicles collect huge amounts of data including psychological, genetic and health information
A recent investigative report on Channel 5 explored the data security and privacy risks of electric cars. According to a cybersecurity campaigner, electric vehicles capture and store a huge amount of data, including location details, facial
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A recent investigative report on Channel 5 explored the data security and privacy risks of electric cars.
According to a cybersecurity campaigner, electric vehicles capture and store a huge amount of data, including location details, facial expressions, and genetic and health information, which are shared with various organisations, including data brokers.
A computer engineer highlighted cybersecurity failures in EV chargers. Using the example of one brand of charger, he explained how hackers are able to easily steal the EV owner’s wi-fi password.
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On 6 June, Channel 5 aired an investigative report titled ‘Electric Cars: Are They Really Worth It?’. The programme explored the viability of purchasing an electric vehicle, examining factors such as cost, range realities and charging truths. It featured comparisons between electric and traditional petrol cars, including discussions on maintenance costs and environmental impact.
Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel and streaming service that can only be viewed if you are in the UK. If you are in the UK, you can create an account on Channel 5’s website and watch their investigation into electric vehicles (“EV”) for free HERE.
If you are outside the UK, you can watch it for free on the Documentary Area website HERE. The only problem is that you have to put up with an annoying watermark which has been placed across the middle of the screen for the entire documentary.
The section we want to draw our readers’ attention to is the final 9 minutes or so about data security and privacy risks. This segment begins at timestamp 35:12.
“Most people today just simply won’t be aware of the data that is actually being captured by a vehicle,” cybersecurity campaigner Martin said. “They certainly won’t be aware of how it’s being used or how it’s being shared.”
EVs are heavily reliant on computer software to manage the vehicle as a whole and interact with their external environment, for example, the car’s keys. “[With the keys on your person, the car] is generating and storing a huge amount of data as soon as you get near the car,” Martin said.
The 2023 Mozilla Foundation Report found that EVs are a privacy nightmare and are less secure than a smartphone. “It’s been found that 25 major car brands collect and share personal data, including location details, facial expressions and even genetic and health information,” the narrator said. The car companies also collect consumers’ behaviour, characteristics and psychological trends.
“They will share that [information] with all sorts of organisations,” Martin said. “Many of these organisations are then sharing it with third parties; it could be to data brokers that are then selling it on. Data is the new gold for them.”
It’s estimated that by 2030, monetisation of data collected from cars could be an industry worth US$750 billion. This is an industry that makes money from the personal data of often unknowing consumers.
In the report last year (below), WHTR also discussed the “massive amounts of driving and personal data” being collected by cars from unsuspecting owners and that this is part of a Big Data collection industry that is estimated to blossom into a trillion-dollar industry.
The problem with data privacy doesn’t stop there. Many cars have internet connectivity and SIM cards, and “when you plug into a charging point to recharge your electric vehicle, it’s like plugging you into a network that suddenly enables all of the data to be pulled out of the vehicle and potentially shared,” Martin warned on Channel 5’s report. “[Electric cars] are mobile phones with wheels, basically, and gather a lot more information.”
“Most people would not share their mobile phone openly, so why would they share the data in a car?” he asked.
Tesla doesn't sell cars.
— Sion (@Sion_Smith) May 19, 2025
They sell data harvesting machines with wheels.
Each Tesla captures 40TB of data yearly—enough for 8,000 HD movies.
That data is worth more than the vehicle itself.
They've turned this hidden goldmine into three revenue streams: pic.twitter.com/ZLo4jSw9UF
Channel 5 then explored the cybersecurity of EV chargers. Computer engineer Ken Munro describes himself as an ethical hacker who is employed by companies to find the bugs in their computer systems before hackers do.
“Some of the EV charger manufacturers rushed their product to market. We’ve looked at lots of different brands and found a lot of cybersecurity failures,” he said.
He showed an example of a Wallbox charger, a smart charger that is connected to the internet. With this particular charger, the chip had a security weakness which allowed the owner’s wi-fi password to be easily stolen; once hackers had located the chip, it could take as little as 10 seconds to establish the wi-fi key.
“Once the hacker has your wi-fi key, they’re on your home network. Imagine all the systems that you’ve got at your house … It’s quite serious getting someone’s wi-fi key,” he said. Channel 5 noted in their report that Wallbox said they have since updated their chargers.
After watching Channel 5’s report, it’s unfathomable why anyone would want to own an electric car.
And then there are the cyber spies to consider.
Last year, a senior European Official said, “These electric vehicles harvest ginormous amounts of industrial data … You may think you’re simply driving a car, but China is building a massive database. We don’t know what advantages this might bring.”
We should not forget that all the data EVs are collecting will feed into a digital control grid, as is the data from all smart devices that comprise the Internet of Things.
Related:
- Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers ‘data privacy nightmares on wheels’, The Register, 6 September 2023
- Customer data from 800,000 electric cars and owners exposed online, Bleeping Computer, 28 December 2024
- ‘Source of data’: Are electric cars vulnerable to cyber spies and hackers? The Guardian, 29 April 2025
Featured image taken from ‘The disconcerting truth about modern cars and your privacy’, Arenaev, 10 September 2023
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