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Volkswagen
Basic information
Founded 1937
Type Public
Industry Automobile Manufacturing
Official website https://www.vw.com/en.html


Volkswagen is a Germany-based automobile manufacturing company. It was established as part of the German Labour Front in 1937. In recent years the company's cars have been collecting customer data, which has led to a recent incident.


Controversies

This section will contain any number of controversies that fall under the scope of the CAT wiki.

Volkswagen car location data gets exposed

Controversy Year Background Info Aftermath Related Article Related Video(s)
Volkswagen car location data gets exposed 2024 2024 Customer vehicle data vehicle data stored on AWS with CARIAD was discovered to have public instances due to a possible misconfiguration. Data exposure incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_II378UoxY

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