Porsche Reiterates Its Commitment To Customers' Privacy - Articles

[Tooney]

Porsche has released a statement regarding the high standards it sets for digital privacy. This follows shortly after BMW stated that it does not sell customers' in-car personal information. Why would two high-profile manufacturers release such statements in short succession?

It all started with Mozilla's Privacy Not Included survey, the results of which were published roughly 10 days ago. The automotive industry scored poorly, and all the brands surveyed received Mozilla's "Privacy Not Included" warning label. BMW was part of the survey, but Porsche was not. To be fair, BMW was the least worst out of all the brands sold in the USA, while Tesla was the worst. Some brands even admitted to gathering data about their owners' sexual activity.

As you can imagine, this sparked a bit of an outrage, and Porsche is obviously trying to get ahead of it.
https://carbuzz.com/news/porsche-reiterates-its-commitment-to-customers-privacy

Privacy made by Porsche: the new Privacy Center 18/09/2023
For Porsche, customer-focussed privacy is essential. With the new Privacy Center in the My Porsche portal, the sports car manufacturer has created a central, clear and easily accessible place for customers to specify with just a few clicks which data they want to share for which purpose.
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/202...y-center-customer-focussed-privacy-33789.html

 

[Scandinavian]

This information is interesting. I looked up this for my car. I found out that I had given consent to Tronity in 2022 to collect data, which they tried to use for their app etc. It did not work,out for my car though.

But even more interesting was that PorscheConnectPartnerService had ticked a box for a TestApp!
PCPS One it seems to be called! No data seems to have been transmitted as yet though. It had been activated in July 2023, but not by me. Must have been done by Porsche???! I certainly did not know anything about this issue at all. Perhaps something linked to the integration into CarPlay??? But that is me speculating?

There is a long list of data that will be collected there. All related to the car though from what I could see.

There seems to be things for all Porsche since the report on oil levels and fuel levels of course.

But there were a few ingesting ones
-localisation
-direction

-battery SOC
-usable SoC
-battery energy content
-charging related info.

quite a lot of useful data for any third party apps.

see screenshot.