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Consumer Privacy Seen As Issue In Connected Cars

  • phys.org, Wednesday, November 23, 2016 3:17 PM

Just like credit cards, smartphones or search engines, autonomous cars will carry a trove of information about their owners as they make driving more comfortable, raising new concerns about privacy. Automakers are engaged in a fierce race to develop the first driverless car, which experts say should hit the road by 2020. Apart from legal obstacles facing the industry as the technology evolves—such as who is responsible in the event of an accident—a digital battle is being waged over the huge amount of technical data that will be stored in such vehicles.

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  1. R MARK REASBECK from www.USAonly.US , November 23, 2016 at 4:20 p.m.

    LOOK AT THE PICTURE.  THESE TECHNO-LEMMINGS ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN MAKING SOMETHING WORK, NEVER ONCE DOES IT EVER ENTER THEIR BRAIN, THE RESPONSIBILITY AND OUTCOME OF THE "DUMBEST IDEA OF THE 21ST CENTURY".   FREEDOM?  WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING FREEDOM.

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