Privacy4Cars

The way the report is organized can be very misleading. Here's the items it listed for my car and why they are misleading.

Under "Collect" it had:

• Identifiers. My car does not have the capability to collect any identifiers. Clicking on the card to learn more what it says is that Honda collects a whole bunch of identifiers. They are not saying that the vehicle collects them.

Honda may indeed have some of that information, but it is because I wrote it down on forms when I bought the car, or I entered it when I registered on their forums.

• Location. Same as "Identifiers". Honda collects this via mobile, web, or vehicle but they are not saying that my particular vehicle collects this.

• Synched Phones. My car has no phone interface. I could possibly get music to play from my phone through my car entertainment system by using my USB-C to headphone adaptor, plugging the headphone to cassette adaptor I have lying around somewhere into that, and insert the cassette end into the cassette slot. I've also got a headphone to FM transmitter somewhere that I could use.

• User Profiles. This is about vehicle speed, acceleration, deceleration, pedal position, engine speed, and similar. It it possible that such information is logged by the computers that control the car. In fact I'd expect some of that to be logged for diagnostic purposes. But it will only be accessible physically, probably through the ODB2 port, or maybe through some Honda-specific port that they make Honda dealers pay a bunch for.

Under "Services" it had:

• Sirius XM ONE-WAY. This is just wrong. 2007 was the first year Sirius XM was an option on CR-V.

So, what we've got then is a mix of items where they are really just reporting what the car company will keep if it gets a hold of it by any means, items that are actually collected by the vehicle, and items that are wrong.