The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars
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Within a few years, fully self-driving cars have gone from science fiction to a very common reality for people in San Francisco with other places in the U.S. also testing the new technology. With innovations often come unintended consequences—one of which is the massive collection of data required...

Summary:

  • Self-driving cars collect a massive amount of data, including visual and other information.
  • This data could be used to track people’s movements, which could pose a threat to privacy.
  • There is a lot of uncertainty about how this data is stored, secured, and accessed.
  • Law enforcement agencies have already served warrants to self-driving car companies for footage.
  • It is important to have strong privacy laws that address the data collected by self-driving cars.
  • We need to know more about how much footage police request and how companies respond to these requests.
  • Regulators need to consider the civil liberties implications of self-driving car data collection.