While the Department of Transportation (DOT) is pushing for a mandate on connected cars before President Barack Obama leaves office, there are a number of privacy and security concerns that need to be ironed out, Politico reports. Vehicle-to-vehicle technology could eventually see driverless cars on the road that “virtually never crash,” said DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx. But the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers’ concerns about privacy are shared by Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who applauds the potentially life-saving features of the technology but worries about driver privacy. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Joe Barton (R-TX) have also voiced concerns about privacy. Editor’s Note: Future of Privacy Forum’s Joshua Harris wrote about the issue of privacy and connected cars in a recent post for Privacy Perspectives.
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