CAR-BITS.de: Legally compliant evaluation of Smart Car data

What data does a Smart Car collect? How can data from connected cars be evaluated in a legally compliant manner? Are networked vehicles moving data centrifuges? This and much more will be explained in this article.

The Munich subsidiary Uniscon GmbH has recently presented the results of the state-sponsored data protection research project CAR-BITS.de. The aim of this project is to make Big Data usable in road traffic. Smart cars generate and collect a lot of data about the car and the driver. Data that is extremely interesting for manufacturers, insurance companies, advertisers and government institutions. So the primary question is who receives what information and to what extent about the smart car owner? Of course, the data also contributes to greater safety and driving pleasure. But it also includes private data, such as driver or movement profiles – in other words, information about where the driver is and what routes he or she is taking.