---
title: "How Your Car Fits Into Apple’s Privacy Battle With the US Government"
description: "You know what else is a portable computer with troves of private data waiting to be unlocked? Your car."
date: "2016-03-17"
modified: "2016-03-17"
authors:
  - name: "John Pearley Huffman"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/john-pearley-huffman.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/tech/2597/how-your-car-fits-into-apples-privacy-battle-with-the-us-government"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Apple"
  - "politics"
---

# How Your Car Fits Into Apple’s Privacy Battle With the US Government

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