Once mobile devices are connected to car infotainment systems and cars are connected to the Internet, vehicles will become a rich source of data for manufacturers, marketers, insurance providers and the government. Oh, and they’ll be a lucrative target for hackers, too.Unlike mobile device makers that use state-of-the-art technology to secure their devices, the automotive industry has generally been a technology laggard when it comes to privacy. The computer systems in automobiles, like so many other systems, may be built from years-old technology because of the three-to-five-year vehicle development cycle.”Nothing dates a car quicker than the electronics. You can get into five-year-old luxury car and it… feels like a Nintendo game… compared to the experience on your smartphone,” said Scott Morrison, a distinguished engineer at CA’s Layer 7 Technologies.With that in mind, Morrison believes cars, just like computers, need an opt-out capability when it comes to collection of in-vehicle data. That’s especially true since there’s little federal oversight on who’s collecting what data from vehicles.Carmakers already remotely collect data from their vehicles, unbeknownst to most drivers, according to Nate Cardozo, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Consumers don’t know with whom that data is being shared,” Cardozo said. “Take…