Uncovering the EV Battery Spy: The Hidden Side-Channel Threat to Your Privacy
Think Your EV Is Clean and Green? It Might Be Watching You. Electric vehicles are hailed as the future of clean mobility. But there’s a growing concern no one’s talking about: your EV might be leaking more than just data it could be exposing your identity, habits, and private life. Recent cybersecurity studies show that your EV’s battery usage patterns can reveal more about you than your phone ever could. Using only power consumption data (no GPS, cameras, or cloud connection), machine learning algorithms have been able to: Identify who is driving Track where they’re going Detect how they drive Estimate passenger count Reconstruct daily routines This research led by the University of Trento and TU Wien used real EV...