What kind of data is my new car collecting?

Re:What kind of data is my new car collecting? by pjc50 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:49AM (#22054572)

Swings and roundabouts in the EU: GDPR should clobber all the nonconsensual data collection, but there is also the "eCall" mandate that will require your car to phone in location to the emergency services in the event of a crash.

(What happens when an EU national drives one of the American surveillancemobiles? Sounds like a straightforward GDPR violation to me, although good luck getting that resolved)

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Re:What kind of data is my new car collecting? by tjoff on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:51AM (#22054598)

Don't really see how eCall is related to the data collection?

A potential privacy issue yes, but much less so than the data collection.

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Re:What kind of data is my new car collecting? by pjc50 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:11AM (#22055436)

Well, in order to implement it the car has to have a "phone" (mobile station) and a GPS. And I think (although not proven) that in order to meet the time requirement it has to keep both of them "warm", ie registered to network with a GPS fix. Which means at the minimum the mobile operators know where the car is at all times. And the car manufacturer has built almost all the hardware for full tracking.

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Re:What kind of data is my new car collecting? by stjohnswarts on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:46PM (#22059082)

Does this mean that if you cut the wires to your antenna you will be jailed in Europe?

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Re:What kind of data is my new car collecting? by mrr54 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:50PM (#22071693)

The first recourse of the law typically isn't jail.

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Re:What kind of data is my new car collecting? by pjc50 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:39AM (#22062977)

Unlikely; you'd have to find the directive to check.

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