Privacy Issues and Data

Privacy is a huge concern in any connected technology that uses user data in order to operate. Self-driving consider as an idea of freedom away from humans. This loss of freedom extends to the loss of privacy. Self driving cars have an “unrestricted”

Every other computer thing occasionally gets hacked, so it’s a near-certainty that self-driving cars will be hacked, too. The question is whether that intrusion—or the fear of it— will be sufficient to delay or even halt the introduction of autonomous vehicles.

The Atlantic

Self-driving could transmit “the current location of an  vehicle user, that person’s past travel history and patterns” and “the forecast of future travel plans”, thus making the user susceptible to “targeted marketing”, “law enforcement,” or “surveillance” (Glancy, 2012).

Even if having data out in the cloud is a great technological advancement and a “staying connected” is important .Take an imaginary city full of such self driving cars , will there be even a inch of ground (or sky) that is unrecorded and processed ?

While every new generation of auto tech brings new security risks, the vulnerabilities that come along with advanced mobility are both unprecedented and under-studied.

Andre Weimerskirch

There are talks on the government services trying to look in to phones to prey for dangerous people , these become government data and not our anymore .Similarly A self driving car data is really sensitive information for users and very dangerous to leak to outside.If it did there might be issues of cyber attacks.

Instead of taking you home from work, your self-driving car delivers you to a desolate road, where it pulls off on the shoulder and stops.

You call your vehicle to pick you up from a store and instead you get a text message: Send $100 worth of Bitcoin to this account and it’ll be right over.

You buckle your seatbelt and set your destination to a doctor’s appointment, but your car won’t leave your driveway. It senses it’s been hacked and your home is its pre-programmed safe destination.

These three hypothetical scenarios—posited in a new white paper by University of Michigan researchers working with Mcity

Cyber security is not a decision or a AI related problem , but it is one of the major crime activity in computer science field. In spite of itself not being a ethical hazard , when a hacker hacks a self driving car and tries to manipulate the decision of the car or tries to capture the data used by the car to look in to the persons life .

“Cyber security is an overlooked area of research in the development of autonomous vehicles,”

Andre Weimerskirch

This lead to another ethical question ” who own all these data ?” , when it comes to a self driving car , all the data gets stored in the cloud and gets re accessed and re trained by future models to avoid decision flaws .But then does it all happen with the knowledge of the user ? or does the company take its own initiative to use the data ?

So far there are not much invitation of privacy , but what happens in future ?

Privacy Restrictions

Transparency – Companies should provide to self-driving car users with ready access to clear and meaningful notices about the collection of data, and the intention of using the collected information.

Choice – Companies should offer self-driving car owners with choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of collected information.

Data Security – Companies should take account of the impact of owners and users. They need to measures to protect collected information against loss or unauthorized access or use. It should collect only information as required for legitimate improvement for self-driving car purposes and should not retain collected information for any longer than necessary.

Integrity and Access – It should implement reasonable measures to maintain the accuracy of collected information and allow users to have a review and correct personal information which they provide during the subscription or registration process for vehicle technologies or services.

Accountability – It should take reasonable steps to ensure they and related entities receiving collected information will adhere to the Privacy Principles.

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