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Cybersecurity
Occupant-monitoring
systems are vital to
derive the most from
ADAS technology, but
some privacy advocates
are concerned
about constant camera
surveillance of the
vehicle cabin.
A headline from the Mozilla Foundation's *Privacy
Not Included research initiative (https://foundation.
mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/) flatly said, " It's
Official: Cars are the Worst Product Category We Have
Ever Reviewed for Privacy. "
Modern vehicles are tracking our data and are
connected in ways that share driver location and behaviors,
with no way for the vehicle occupants to know
how the collected data is being used or how - if it's
even possible - to turn it off. This is why a new agency
in California designed to protect people's privacy just
announced it is opening a probe (https://www.wsj.com/
articles/california-privacy-agency-opens-probe-into-private-data-collected-by-cars-d17ec917)
into how smart
vehicles collect and share data in potentially invasive ways.
A group called Privacy4Cars launched an online
tool to allow consumers to view key privacy facts about
a vehicle by looking up its VIN. The tool is available
for free at vehicleprivacyreport.com.
Current laws allow third parties, including law
enforcement and insurance companies, to monitor
travel and driving behaviors whenever they see fit.
Unfortunately for drivers, onboard cameras have
been routinely accessed by third parties (https://www.
reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06)
and
used to prosecute their owners (https://www.
enjuris.com/car-accident/dash-cam-footage-evidence/)
for traffic violations.
Arguments about who owns that data - automakers
or Apple and Microsoft and the myriad of app
suppliers - will continue. These entities are collecting
data about you and your driving habits and using that
data to make money. Lots of money.
" Companies have an extreme desire to collect as
much data as they can, " Janet Haven, executive director
of the think tank Data and Society, said. " This is the
business model - to collect data and build products
around that data, or to sell that data to data brokers. "
SAE Media recently spoke with John Gilmore,
Head of Research, at DeleteMe, the first service of its
specific kind: a one-stop-shop, consumer data broker
opt-out service. Gilmore said DeleteMe is a company
that " makes it quick, easy and safe to remove your
personal data online " (https://joindeleteme.com).
Gilmore has a 20-year background in business-intelligence
research, having started at Datamonitor
with DeleteMe founder Rob Shavell. Gilmore joined
DeleteMe five years ago as the company expanded and
has been closely involved in its development of a B2B
service providing privacy services to institutions.
Auto data - how it's collected, who owns it - is big
news these days.
Yes. The Mozilla Foundation published a report about
car data privacy. And it's gotten a lot of media attention.
For instance, the California Attorney General's Office is
initiating an investigation of how cars handle consumer
data and is it compliant with state privacy law as it stands.
Mozilla created the Firefox browser. They're really
the only independent browser company in the world.
So Mozilla has always had a strong focus on how to
improve online privacy data for users. Recently, Mozilla
released three reports focusing on automotive privacy.
They ranked several auto companies on how they
protect their car owners' privacy. Not one company
passed the test about what data is being tracked and
to whom that data is sold.
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