According to a new report cited by Politico, automakers are collecting massive amounts of data about the drivers and passengers of their cars, some of which includes information about in-car sexual activity.

In a report released Wednesday after analyzing 25 car brands and 15 car manufacturers, the Mozilla Foundation said Nissan claims it can sell data brokers information about drivers’ and passengers’ sexual activity, intelligence and health.

This information may also be available to authorities or other companies.

Instead, Volkswagen says it can record drivers’ voices to create a profile of them so they can be targeted with ads for products and services they might want. Basically, what Facebook, Google and other companies and online platforms are doing, only in this case the data is collected not by the browser, but by the car.

“The amount of data these automakers openly said they could collect was shocking,” said Jen Cultridge, one of the researchers who wrote the report, published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit that also owns the company that makes the Firefox browser.

“It’s like no one has ever come across them and asked them about privacy, so they’ve just included everything,” he said of the data automakers say they can provide about their customers.

Car manufacturers have found a new “goose with golden eggs”

In principle, Europeans are better protected from this kind of abuse by the European Union’s GDPR regulations. But Cultridger says these rules are poorly implemented and enforced when it comes to car manufacturers, and that national authorities have stepped in to enforce compliance by car companies on rare occasions.

The researchers who wrote the report looked at the privacy policies of car companies and downloaded their apps in Germany, France, the US and South Korea.

They found that the auto industry is sitting on a mountain of private data that it collects through the sensors and technology used in new car models.

For example, some of them calculate the weight of drivers and passengers when they get in, take pictures of the car inside and outside on cameras, listen to private conversations through a microphone and track users using applications installed on their smartphones.

“It’s not just selling cars to make money anymore. It’s about collecting data and then using that data to make money,” Caltriger says.

According to various estimates, the data brokering market is worth several hundred billion euros annually.