The feds are coming for diesel truck owners. They're starting with your phone

Pandora’s box is being opened, and this might just be the beginning.

The Department of Justice has ordered Apple and Google to hand over an OBDII app’s user data in a new emissions probe. The culprit? EZ Lynk, which many of you will remember and possibly just twitched upon seeing the name again.

Five years after the DOJ sued EZ Lynk while claiming the company refused to cooperate with an Environmental Protection Agency investigation, the Feds have now subpoenaed Apple and Google for user data for at least 100,000 people that downloaded the EZ Lynk Auto Agent app. The heart of all this is the DOJ accusing EZ Lynk of purposely assisting customers in modifying their vehicles to violate the Clean Air Act. Now user privacy is on the line.

Now it seems lawyers want to interview individuals about how they used EZ Lynk’s products after looking at and linking their user app data. Naturally, consumer rights advocates are loudly wondering why the DOJ would need consumers’ identities, addresses, and even purchase histories. Who’s on trial here and exactly who are the Feds after now?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-feds-are-coming-for-diesel-truck-owners-they-re-starting-with-your-phone/ar-AA23F1ZD