Senator: Your Futuristic Car Is Putting Your Privacy and Security at Risk
While security is highly important for critical systems, cars really don’t have to share people or passenger information to work if they are designed right.
Cars these days have more in common with smart phones than the Model-T. But a new report from Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) warns that the increasing technical complexity of vehicles is leaving drivers’ security and privacy at risk.
“Drivers have come to rely on these new technologies, but unfortunately the automakers haven’t done their part to protect us from cyber-attacks or privacy invasions,” Markey in a statement. “Even as we are more connected than ever in our cars and trucks, our technology systems and data security remain largely unprotected.”
Markey sent inquiries to 20 automakers, including Ford, Toyota and General Motors, last year, asking what the companies were doing to secure the technology in their vehicles against hackers and how personal data gathered through the technology is managed.
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