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Most car makers are global - and sell heavily in European markets, which are covered by the GDPR. So I suspect that for these manufacturers, many brands will be
by steve_gh 7y ago
Most car makers are global - and sell heavily in European markets, which are covered by the GDPR. So I suspect that for these manufacturers, many brands will be GDPR compliant by default. That said:
- Under what principle is data collected (Article 6)
- What measures have they put in place to enable access to PI (Article 15)
- How consent may be withdrawn (Article 7)
- How consent may be obtained when a vehicle is sold (Article 7)
- How do they ensure data is protected (Article 25) so that PI access by the subject (under Article 15) is matched to ownership (or registered keeper as the vehicle may be owned by a finance company) of the vehicle
Answers on a postcard please :-)
- maxerickson 7y agoThey have enough volume that there doesn't have to be much money involved per vehicle to make US specific versions.
- mhandley 7y agoOf course if a US-spec vehicle is exported to the EU, GDPR then applies to any data collected by that manufacturer from that vehicle.
- tomatotomato37 7y agoThat liability will be on the importer though, in the same way that making the indicators and emissions systems compliant to EU standards would be
- hvidgaard 7y agoIf it sends the data to the manufacturer, they're liable. If they importer are, and the manufacturer doesn't care, they not going to sell any cars.
- buildbot 7y agoHaving worked at one, they are very careful about being GDPR complaint in every service, even internal. It’s refreshing!
- brummm 7y agoI mean, except Ford and Tesla, none of the American brands are very popular in Europe. I guess this would move affect European and Asian car makers that can collect more data outside of Europe.
- 1over137 7y agoTesla is not popular in Europe. Two orders of magnitude fewer units sold vs the popular brands. http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-analysis-july-august-2019-brands/ http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-analysis-july-aug...
- hanche 7y agoThey are quite popular in Norway (https://elbilstatistikk.no/ https://elbilstatistikk.no/). But of course, we're only a rather small corner of Europe.
- zaroth 7y ago> Electric car sales grew by 90% in July and by 69% in August, while PHEV sales were down 19% in July and down 29% in August. Tesla is massively supply constrained in Europe. Hence GF4 which could break ground next month.
- consp 7y agoThe new ford hud's/entertainment systems ('19) have quite a lot of "EU only" settings correlated to sending data and EuroNCAP test requirements which are not enabled now but can be if required (I decompiled the programs looking for specific settings). I'm pretty sure most data gathering is off at the moment and you can always remove the connectivity module which also disables remote start and stuff of course. In that case, also do not connect to your phone via WiFi as it will try to connect to the internet though it. At the moment it only sends your VIN, installed updates and the configuration data and as far as the internet has figured out nothing is done with it, but it is worrying. You still have to opt in to the FordPass systems though.