In an opinion piece for the Toronto Star, President of the Toronto Automobile Dealers Association Sandy Liguori writes that as vehicles' computer systems become increasingly sophisticated, potential threats are "waiting to be exploited" and calls for a more aggressive stance from governments, companies and law enforcement. Meanwhile, Nissan is looking into a blogger's claims that the navigation systems in its Leaf vehicles send drivers' location data to third parties. A SeattleWireless.net blog post claims that the information is transmitted via Nissan's subscription-based Carwings system when a driver updates his RSS feeds. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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