In brief - Security experts are warning that internet-linked vehicles are posing increasing risks. - Ninety-five per cent of vehicles in Australia are expected to be internet-linked by 2035. Security experts have cautioned that internet-linked vehicles pose an increasing threat to Australian consumers as their data-gathering capabilities grow. The country's top spy agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), issued a recent warning that government officials should avoid having confidential conversations in internet-linked vehicles. "Obviously, a connected car may have other vectors to gather that information, but those conversations should only ever happen in places that are set up for classified conversations," ASIO's deputy director general Lisa Alonso Love told Senate Estimates last week. "We would say that people should be conscious of the things that they are discussing in vehicles, knowing that people may be able to get that information." Experts have told SBS News that the risk of malicious actors taking advantage of the smart capabilities of vehicles is growing and that the public is unaware of the risks their high-tech cars pose. News that makes sense Your trusted source for staying up-to-date with the world around you. Get free daily news updates and analysis, straight to your inbox. "Most people haven't fully ingested how many data points are being collected in a vehicle," Montii Abid, a cybersecurity consultant and researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, said. "The tech has moved away from being something simple to being a computer with a microphone, cameras, personal data, everything." A 2021 report by consulting firm McKinsey estimated that half of the vehicles on Australian roads that year were connected to the internet. By 2035, that number is expected to rise to 95 per cent. The same report found that sensors across the car can generate one to two terabytes