Nearly 70 Car Brands In Australia Could Be Quietly Sending Drivers’ Data To 12 Countries

As new cars have flooded the market, data privacy laws have not kept up. Australia is being urged to adopt similar vehicle cybersecurity laws to Europe. As it stands, data collected by new cars in Australia is stored overseas. Australia’s car market is relatively small, with just 1.24 million vehicles sold across 2025, yet it remains extraordinarily competitive, home to almost 70 different brands all fighting for their slice of the sales. That kind of density puts a lot of hardware, and a lot of software, into Australian driveways every year. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”);…

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