Could Your Car Become A Great Data Miner, and Discovery New Frontiers of Data?

In the future, you car could be gossiping about all the other cars (and people) that it comes in contact with, and using this to build new maps of our interactions.

Things are changing. We are currently being data mined for every search we make to Google, and where a whole bank of companies are waiting to deliver customized content to us based on our searches. For example, I searched for “Which is the best toothbrush?”, and I received this when I went to Sky News:

This model of cross-fertilisation of information across domains breaks the isolated model of the information, and allows Google to mine information from their free service, and then sell it on to advertisers. We, hope, we trust Google to look after our data, but many companies want to be in Google’s position, and search history is only a small part of revealing our lives, the most information you can gain is what we do when we are away from a browser.