Your connected car knows you. The tussle for that data's hitting high gear

What you listen to. "If you don't have access to data in the future, eventually you'll be squeezed out," says Tim Albertsen, CEO of ALD, Societe Generale's car leasing division, which commands millions of vehicles. "Europe's auto industry is committed to giving access to the data generated by the vehicles it produces," said a spokesperson for the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. Yet the companies lined up against them say limiting or charging what they deem unfair amounts for access to in-vehicle data could kill off competition for carmakers who already operate their own leasing firms, car subscription services and repair shops. Richard Knubben, deputy director general of Leaseurope, which represents Europe's leasing and car rental firms, said the longer the EU took to legislate car data, the more independent repair shops are at risk of going out of business because they lack access to it.