Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by closewith 1433 days ago
This is nonsense. The protections of both national and EU regulations apply to personal data collected via your car.

I can only ask that you refrain from spreading misinformation - it muddies the waters.

1 comments

Read the article I linked yourself, no misinformation.

Quoting:

The contest is entering a pivotal phase as EU regulators look to hammer out the world's first laws for the ballooning industry around web-enabled vehicles, pitting carmakers against a coalition of insurers, leasing companies and repair shops.

[...]

Car manufacturers, guarding their gatekeeper role in accessing data from their vehicles, have resisted specific regulations for in-vehicle data, saying that protecting consumers is paramount.

"Europe's auto industry is committed to giving access to the data generated by the vehicles it produces," said a spokesperson for the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA). "However, uncontrolled access to in-vehicle data poses major safety, (cyber) security, data protection and privacy threats."

I did read the article. It doesn't make the same claims that you do, and - strangely - it doesn't superceded national and EU regulation.