Top-selling car brand confirms some Australian customer data is processed overseas as connected cars top a million The News Toyota Australia has confirmed that some data from its connected vehicles is processed and stored overseas in the Americas and South-East Asia, as the number of connected Toyotas on local roads passed 1 million.
Senior executives at Toyota Australia said the majority of the data was hosted in secure data centres in Australia, and that protecting it was as important as protecting customers on the road.
As I have said before, protecting customer data is as essential as protecting their safety on the road,” he said.
“Our data systems are hosted in secure data centres, the majority of which are located in Australia, with some data also processed and stored in secure Toyota-managed environments in North America and Singapore.”
More recently Toyota and Hyundai have been investigated by the Australian privacy watchdog over their data practices particularly in relation to data collection, sharing and deletion.