Gadgetory

now a lot of change in the world of automotive theft over the decades in the 1970s some 70% of cars that were stolen we're stolen for a joyride now more than 50% of cars that are stolen are stolen to be stripped to have things stolen out of them or parts from them but a part that can be stolen from your car that you don't think about is your personal data that's stored in your systems so think about these data protection tips for your car when you sell loan it or just leave it at the shop for a long time did you set your home address in the navigation system to allow that nice one press take the home functionality most recent places you've navigated to are also typically stored and your GPS head units menus as well did you click yes when the Bluetooth hands-free system asked you to transfer your phone contacts into the car your recent call history incoming and outgoing is typically stored in there as well some cars now have text message ability they can send receive and yes store your message history and what about that garage door opener built into your visor combine that with the home address you stored in your nav system and you basically made an easy garage break-in car luckily most of these are pretty easy to deal with if you just poke around a few menus in your car's head unit for example when you unpair a Bluetooth phone that will also typically remove the contacts the call history everything else with it navigation systems often have a command to clear recent destinations some cars have a clear personal data command in their settings menu that will blow everything out and D memorizing the code for your garage door is usually as simple as pushing two of the buttons at once for a few seconds check your manual to see exactly what the sequence is so you know how car makers are always trying to convince us that their vehicles are now rolling consumer electronics bingo and should think about the data within them in that vein