I work for an automotive vendor and this kind of thing keeps me up at night. The automotive vendor space is... lacking in technology. It's amazing what little t

I work for an automotive vendor and this kind of thing keeps me up at night. The automotive vendor space is... lacking in technology. It's amazing what little thing we can do from a technological standpoint that impresses the OEMs. Also, the way most of these vendor relationships work is that the provider collects data, passes it on to the dealership and program management company (third party that OEMs hire to handle the vendor relationships) who then passes it to the OEM itself. Often there are 3-4 copies of your data. SSNs _are_ a surprise though. That's usually exclusively for credit approvals and every vendor I've ever worked with takes stuff seriously.