House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: Even though, as reported today on Slashdot, 'experts from government, industry, and academia say they have no confidence they'll develop a secure system that can protect users from tracking and privacy breaches,' a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives have 'proposed that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set up an Automotive Cybersecurity Advisory Council to develop cybersecurity best-practice.' The draft proposal would require vehicle manufacturers to 'develop and implement' a privacy policy outlining their information-gathering practices, and would make vehicle data hacking illegal and subject to a $100,000 penalty for each violation.

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[superwiz]

Any vehicle "data hacking"? Or a vehicle in motion? Otherwise, accessing data of a car's computer while the car is stationary would be a crime. So this would have made the VW investigators criminals. It would also make anyone creating a 3rd device reading on-board computer data illegal without a license from the manufacturer. If you can't introspect a car without putting in jeopardy anyone's safety, then this is just another DMCA.

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