How to Disable The Hidden Tracker in Your Honda That Sold Your Driving for 26 Cents

Five clips and two screws. That is all that held the cellular box inside one 2024 Honda Civic Type R, and its owner lifted it out by hand. From 2020 to 2024, Honda shared driving data from about 97,000 cars with the data broker Verisk and was paid $25,920. Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey put that at 26 cents a car. The data came from Driver Feedback, an opt-in program in the HondaLink app. The senators say the disclosure naming Verisk was buried in the legal terms. Honda disputes that, saying no identifiable customer information reached an insurer without a second opt-in. Verisk shut down its driver scoring product in April 2024, and Driver Feedback ended that May. The program ended, but the box that carried the data is still in the car. This documentary walks through the Senate record, Honda's own Vehicle Data Privacy Notice, and one reporter's attempt to switch data sharing off on the day she bought her Honda. Then it covers the three ways owners are shutting it down: the setting on the screen, the deactivation call Honda's notice describes, and the telematics control unit itself, with the honest trade-offs of each. Hardware covered: the 2024 Civic Type R, from one owner's documented removal, and the 2023 Accord, where Honda's own Service Bulletin 23-056 places the unit under the center speaker lid. No Honda owner premium increase is claimed in this video, because none was found on the record. Own a CR-V, Pilot, Passport or Odyssey? Leave your year, model and trim in the comments, and tell us if you have found the box on yours. Those answers build the next list. Subscribe for the next one:    / @themotortruth   SOURCES CivicXI owner forum — 2024 Civic Type R TCU removal, five clips and two screws: https://www.civicxi.com/forum/threads... Senators Wyden and Markey letter to the FTC — Honda, 97,000 cars, $25,920: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/medi... Honda press release — Driver Feedback launch, powered by Verisk: https://hondanews.com/en-US/releases/... Claims Journal — Verisk says Honda driver data available across its products: https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/na... Associated Press report — Honda's statement on the second opt-in: https://www.marketbeat.com/articles/s... Sherwood News — reporter's attempt to turn off Honda data sharing: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt... CivicXI owner forum — Verisk file request and Driver Feedback shutdown email: https://www.civicxi.com/forum/threads... Entrepreneur — how Kashmir Hill found the driving data story on car forums: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business... Honda Vehicle Data Privacy Notice — what Honda collects and how to deactivate: https://www.honda.com/privacy/connect... Honda Service Bulletin 23-056 (NHTSA) — 2023 Accord telematics unit location: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/202...