Here is a taste of my newest RTInsights article on connected vehicle data ownership. You can find the full article at https://www.rtinsights.com/data-ownership-in-the-age-of-the-connected-vehicle/.
The issue of data ownership in the coming generations of connected vehicles will be thorny. Owners, drivers, OEMs, insurers, and others may have claims.
Most people do not know what data reside and are generated by vehicles. In fact about 90% of Europeans think the drivers own the data in their vehicles and some American lawyers believe there are legal arguments in favor of having the vehicles’ owners keep the data held within their cars.
In the current landscape, most of the drivers’ vehicles’ data are owned by the car manufacturers (OEMs) in the United States and Europe, not the vehicles’ owners. People are becoming aware of the data issues involved in cases such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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