Auto Apps · Auto App · Regulatory action
Ford (FordPass)
Headline
If you invite ANYONE to your FordPass account — a spouse, a teenager, a house-sitter borrowing the car for a week — they don't just get permission to drive.
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
If you invite ANYONE to your FordPass account — a spouse, a teenager, a house-sitter borrowing the car for a week — they don't just get permission to drive. They get FULL ACCESS to the vehicle's entire location history, health data, and usage records. Sharing driving privileges silently shares your whole location history too, and California specifically fined Ford $375,703 for making the opt-out process needlessly hard to use.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Binding individual arbitration; explicitly bars combining claims, notifying others of potential claims, or any representative/class/collective/private-attorney-general proceeding without Ford's consent.
Data sharing
Collects driving data, location, and vehicle health/usage info continuously once modem is activated; anyone the account owner invites to the app gets FULL access to vehicle location/health/usage history, not just driving privileges — a real privacy exposure for shared/family vehicles. California's privacy regulator (CPPA) specifically cited Ford's opt-out-of-sale process as unnecessarily 'friction-heavy,' resulting in a $375,703 California fine (CPPA Board decision, March 5, 2026) for requiring consumers to complete an email-verification step before Ford would process their opt-out requests.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. PUBLIC COMPANY (F). Service route: c/o General Counsel / Corporate Secretary, Dearborn, Michigan — the corporate address on the SEC Form 10-K cover page is the official address of record. Confirm the exact street address on the current 10-K at sec.gov/edgar, and check the state-of-incorporation registered agent (usually Delaware; most large filers use The Corporation Trust Company or Corporation Service Company) via the Secretary of State business-entity search. A registered agent MUST accept service, which is why it is the reliable channel when a company publishes no privacy address.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
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| Privacy policy Same page (Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions combined) — about.att... (correction: Ford's own privacy portal, not individually split from Terms in this pass) | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service fordpass.com/content/ford_com/fp_app/en_us/termsprivacy.html | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website ford.com | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No comprehensive state privacy statute on file for Michigan