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Kia Connected Services

Kia Corporation · Connected Car

Staff Reviewed — a person at DeSpy reviewed this rating.

7.2Surveillance
Index
Policy — what its policy permitsF
Evidence — what research provesF

Its privacy policy explicitly states it can collect 'sex life' information and shares data as required or permitted by law; named alongside GM and Honda in the NYT LexisNexis investigation.

Why this rating

Kia's privacy policy explicitly states it can collect 'sex life' information and the automaker joined LexisNexis's Telematics Exchange in 2024, placing it squarely in the industry-wide driving-data broker pipeline flagged by Mozilla.

What it is

Manufacturer
Kia Corporation
Category
Connected Car
Model years
2018-present
Market status
Current
Companion app
Kia Connect

The evidence 2

Independent research, regulatory action, lawsuits and journalism about how this device handles personal data — the "what actually happens" axis. Each links to its source.

  1. S4Mozilla: Privacy Nightmare on Wheels — Every Car Brand Reviewed Flunks Privacy Test
    Ngo review · Mozilla Foundation · 2023-09-01

    Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included* review found all 25 major car brands failed its privacy standards, the worst category it had ever reviewed.

    Why it matters here: Mozilla's failing car-brand review includes Kia.

  2. S3Kia Joins LexisNexis Telematics Exchange
    Journalism · LexisNexis Risk Solutions · 2024-02-08

    LexisNexis press release confirming Kia joined its Telematics Exchange program supplying driving-behavior data to insurers.

    Why it matters here: LexisNexis press release confirms Kia's enrollment in the Telematics Exchange broker pipeline.

Where your data goes

Third parties this device's data has flowed to, and on what basis. An ended tag means the flow has verifiably stopped — it stays listed for the record.

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An email is encrypted at rest and opened only to answer you; it is erased 30 days after we resolve this (or 180 days if still open), and you can erase it sooner. Unproven filings are deleted after 14 days.

Think something here is wrong?

Evidence and research improve when people push back. Tell us what to re-check — a misattributed domain, an outdated classification, a claim about your own app — and a human will review it. Responses can take up to 30 days.

If you leave an email it is encrypted at rest and opened only to answer you — never shared, never used for anything else. It is erased 30 days after we resolve this (or 180 days if it is still open) without you asking, and you can erase it sooner at any time; either way your correction stays, anonymously. Leave it blank and your request is fully anonymous from the start (we store no IP address either way).

Descriptive, cited, not legal advice; ratings are versioned and corrections create a new version. Data from the IoT Info Grabber DB research project, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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