China fears car data leaks outside its borders
The Beijing government requires automakers who sell their cars there to store data generated by the vehicles locally, and if they intend to export critical data abroad, they must obtain regulatory approval.
This comes at a time when new cars are generating more data than ever due to applications of advanced semi-autonomous driving systems.
Reuters reported that
the Beijing Automotive Engineering Research Institute (CAERI) has developed a system that analyzes the data transmission path through a communications detector that monitors uploaded data and data collected from vehicles in the test environment.
It is reported that this is the first system of its kind in the country and has been tested on Tesla, Audi, Daimler and Land Rover cars.
The Beijing government is increasingly concerned about the
amount of data produced by modern cars , as well as concerns that this information may be misused by private companies.
As such, it recently introduced a new security law, and earlier this year, Tesla came under special scrutiny over its processing and storage of customer data in the country.
In fact, employees at some important Chinese government facilities have been ordered not to park their Tesla cars inside government compounds due to security concerns with their outdoor cameras.
It is reported that Uber sold its branch in Beijing to its competitor Didi Chucking, and some attributed the reasons for this to the restrictions practiced by the government for fear of leaking customer data outside its territory.
On the other hand, no further information was announced regarding the machines that were developed to track data sent abroad.
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