Are you among the many under the illusion that you still possess a shred of privacy? Love being deluded, eh? There is no privacy any longer. Not even in your own home, in your car, wherever you go or stay. Even in “the middle of nowhere,” you can easily be seen, tracked, and listened to.

Have a Smartphone? Of course you do and are likely one of the billions of people on earth today that can’t be more than a few feet from it at any time in your life, it’s always on, it’s become your idol, your soul, your breath, your heartbeat — why you even sleep with it, always turned on, one of your main concerns in life now? What percentage of life is my battery at?

If further from your phone than you’ve become addicted to, actual panic can set in. Heart rate increases. Respiration accelerates. Can actually break out in a sweat. Genuine fear encompasses the being.

Wow. How come?

What did the billions and billions of souls ever do in the first thousands of years on this earth without the Apple and Samsung corporations!?

Of course, must be trendy, can’t be left behind [yet most will be] and fall for the lie and propaganda, you must have a home assistant, a smart home, a smart this, smart that, Mr. and Mrs. Smartypants-Gotta-Keep-Up-and-Serve-the-Sellers-the-Trends. Of course you do, right?

And your car…oh my…your car…the vehicle of escape from it all, right? What will your friends, co-workers, pastor, boss, relatives, neighbors think of you if you don’t “smarten up” in every purchase and remain serving the trends, the sellers, the marketing dung?

“So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.”

Luke 5:16

“Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.”

Luke 6:12

“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” 

Mark 1:35

“When Jesus heard, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place.” 

Matthew 14:13

Hummm…notice a trend, a GOOD trend, unlike the trends today to follow the crowd, the world, to not have time for what matters most. No wonder only 4% of us possess a Biblical worldview and actually open, read, and study the Word of God on a daily basis.

I recently heard a pastor speak of what it would be like if Jesus had come to this world in our present, rather than when He did.

For one, He’d never have any solace, away time with the Father, any peace. Always tracked. Always watched. Wherever, whenever, always.

And heaven forbid He’d have been owning or driving a car in the year 2025!

God knew best, God knows best.

And isn’t it a tragic, sad, telling irony that the writer of the article below wrote what is most true of us as a mass of individuals, so many, so lost, so self-invloved, so silent, so unaware really, that THE MASS, perhaps not aware individuals, but THE MASS doesn’t realize what’s lost, what’s been going on until it’s too far late and, well, it’s far too late.

Oh, and while it’s certainly about money. It’s all about money, always is, as that is what gets most people up in the morning, money, money, money, and the quest for it — it’s also about control. Centralized control of the overwhelming majority of people on earth. Wonder why that is, why that is necessary? Hummm…

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Thursday, May 8th, 2025

You Thought Your Phone Tracked You? Meet Your Car

May 08, 2025

By PNW Staff

Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch

It used to be that stepping into your vehicle felt like entering your own private bubble—a rolling sanctuary where you could sing off-key, vent your frustrations, or sit in silence with your thoughts. That illusion is dead. In its place, we have machines that may be tracking, storing, and selling everything from our location history to driver behavior or even personal contacts.

Yes, your car might know more about you than your own spouse.

An investigation by Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included project named modern cars the worst category of consumer products when it comes to privacy. Let that sink in. Worse than your smartphone. Worse than your smart TV. Worse even than those always-listening home assistants sitting in your kitchen.

Cars now function like smartphones on wheels—only with more sensors, fewer user controls, and significantly less awareness by the people being tracked. The infotainment system records your calls and contacts. Cameras and microphones inside and out capture your behavior. GPS logs your movements. Tire sensors, braking patterns, acceleration habits—all fed into a voracious data engine.

The idea that you “own” your vehicle is a myth. You’re renting mobility from a corporation that may be quietly monetizing your behavior.

The $400,000,000,000 Data Grab

Why is this happening? Because driver data is big business. According to McKinsey & Company, vehicle data could generate up to $400,000,000,000 annually by 2030. Carmakers have figured out that while hardware sales plateau, monetizing data creates a renewable revenue stream.

Andrea Amico of Privacy4Cars warns that people still view their vehicles as private spaces. “But they’re not,” he says. “They’re data centers.”

And most drivers haven’t a clue.

A recent survey by the American Automobile Association found that more than 80% of consumers are unaware their vehicle collects and shares data at all. That ignorance has consequences. Some insurance companies now adjust premiums based on driving behavior extracted from your vehicle, often without transparent consent. Your insurer may know what time you drive, where you go, and how fast you get there—and price your policy accordingly.

Spyware on Wheels—and No Off Switch

What makes this worse is that you can’t simply “opt out.” Many carmakers bury data-sharing permissions in long, dense user agreements signed under pressure at the dealership—if they’re presented at all. Thorin Klosowski of the Electronic Frontier Foundation recalls realizing, moments after buying his car, that he had essentially agreed to hand his personal data to a third party. “And I do this for a living,” he said.

Even used cars pose privacy risks. One YouTuber recently revealed he could still track a Volvo he had sold, viewing every stop the new owner made—church, school, home. That isn’t just creepy; it’s dangerous.

And then there’s the looming specter of federally mandated kill switches. Hidden in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a requirement that all new vehicles by 2026 include technology capable of disabling the car remotely, potentially without the driver’s consent. Ostensibly, this is about preventing drunk driving. In reality, it opens the door to a surveillance tool ripe for abuse—by governments, hackers, or corporations.

Already, some subprime lenders install kill switches to disable vehicles when payments are missed. Imagine what happens when that power expands.

We Are Not the Customers—We Are the Commodity

The Silicon Valley mantra, “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product,” doesn’t hold up here. We’re paying—often $50,000 or more—and still being treated like the product.

And we’re not just talking about telemetry or braking behavior. Nissan’s 2023 privacy policy (before public backlash forced edits) included language about collecting sensitive personal data like “sexual orientation,” “health diagnoses,” and even “genetic information.” This isn’t just surveillance—it’s profiling.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation insists this is all about safety. But that’s like calling a security camera in your shower a safety feature. “Safety” has become the fig leaf behind which a profitable, barely regulated surveillance industry hides.

A Nation Asleep at the Wheel

So where’s the outrage? We’ve accepted smart speakers that eavesdrop, phones that track us, and TVs that log what we watch. But cars? This crosses a sacred line. For many Americans, the car is a last refuge of autonomy and control. Now it’s just another portal into your private life.

We urgently need legislation that reflects the scope and sensitivity of what carmakers are collecting. In Europe, the GDPR offers at least some guardrails. The U.S. has no equivalent federal data privacy law—and automakers are exploiting that void.

Until that changes, your best defense is vigilance. Read the fine print. Disable what you can. Ask your dealer for a copy of the data-sharing agreement before you sign. Reset your vehicle before you sell it.

The car used to symbolize freedom—open roads, spontaneous detours, long stretches of solitude. Now, it’s just one more node in the vast web of surveillance that quietly monitors our lives. We’ve been told there’s nowhere to hide from the watchful eyes of modern technology. Now, there’s nowhere left to drive. This is yet another example of how easily we trade our freedoms for convenience, surrendering privacy not with resistance, but with a signature and a smile—never realizing what we’ve lost until it’s too late.