Opportunities and risks associated with collecting and making usable additional data

Abstract

Cars have for a long time been a symbol for the freedom and autonomy of their users. Now autonomous driving raises the question how the data flows related to autonomous driving influence the privacy of these cars’ users. Therefore this chapter discusses five guiding questions on autonomous driving, data flows, and the privacy impact of vehicles interacting with other entities: (1) Which "new" or additional data are being collected and processed due to autonomous driving and which consequences result from those "new" or additional data being collected and processed? (Sect. 24.2); (2) Are certain types of data special and do they cause special hindrances? (Sect. 24.3); (3) What is required from the perspective of privacy? (Sect. 24.4); (4) When building architectures, what needs to be kept in mind to avoid creating difficult or even unsolvable privacy problems? (Sect. 24.5); (5) What needs to be considered in the long term? (Sect. 24.6). The questions will be discussed relating as much as possible to the case studies that were introduced at the beginning of this book. Sect. 24.7 concludes this text including an analysis whether more autonomy of driving vehicles leads to more privacy problems.