CPDP 2016: Buckle-up: connected cars could face privacy bumps in the road ahead.

Buckle-up: connected cars could face privacy bumps in the road ahead. Organized by CPDP Chair: Lucas Melgaço, VUB-LSTS (BE) Moderator: Wout van Wijk, Huawei (CN) Panel: Isabelle Chatelier, EDPS (EU), Simon Hania, TomTom (NL), Brigitte Lonc, Renault (FR), Maurice Schellekens, Tilburg University-TILT (NL), Panagiotis Papadimitratos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) Connected cars may soon be another prominent part of the Internet of Things - with millions of vehicles being connected to the cloud and to each other. As consumers demand more personalized services and smarter, safer, and more seamless in-car features, the volume of data generated by sensors and devices will increase. Accordingly, modern cars turn into mobile data centers - connected, clever and self-enabled. As they record almost every aspect of our journeys and driving behaviour, interacting with our smartphone apps and sat-nav systems, questions arise as to who will control all this data and how will it be used? In turn, questions arise as to how privacy can effectively be protected? In this panel, we will explore new technologies in the automobile industry and their risks for the privacy of individuals, and demonstrate best practices and solutions for ensuring compliance and transparency. What are the latest technology trends in the automobile industry? How can future self-driving, self-socializing and self-learning vehicles be enabled by the utilization of personal data without compromising the rights of data subjects? Is the industry’s recent adoption of voluntary Privacy Principles enough to address the challenges of the upcoming Internet of Things? How can new business models and data protection live in harmony together?