Flutterby™! : VW leaks customer trip data

Whistleblower finds unencrypted location data for 800,000 VW EVs

According to Motor1, a whistleblower gave German publication Der Spiegel and hacking collective Chaos Computer Club a heads-up about the misconfiguration. Der Spiegel and CCC then spent some time sifting through the data, with which allowed them to tie individual cars to their owners.

Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars

I was listening recently to the excellent "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, and reminded of John Perry Barlow and the techno-utopianism of the '90s, and I think we have a new corollary for "information wants to be free", which is "if you collect it, it will eventually be world readable".