Is your car spying on you? Government thinks it might be NBC Bay Area [Video]

Between his phone and his car, Isaiah Harrison is connected almost everywhere he goes, and that’s worrying the White House.

“I am a little superstitious about things like that, honestly,” he said.

The Biden administration is now proposing a stop to importing or selling cars that can connect to the internet, if they include Chinese or Russian parts.

The concern? Basically, cars as spyware.

“If you have foreign components in your car, particularly hardware or software, if they’re manufactured in a country that is adversarial to the United States, now you have potentially a foreign power that is able to eavesdrop on hundreds or thousands of cars,” Mike McNerney, chairman of the Institute for Security and Technology, said.

Is your car spying on you? That’s the fear from the White House — and the concern is big enough that it’s sparking a proposed ban on some software coming out of China. Scott Budman has the details.

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