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EU regime for connected and automated vehicles: GDPR, ePrivacy, cybersecurity (NIS2), Data Act access, AI Act, type approval, eCall, liability and practical compliance

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This Practice Note examines data, privacy and cybersecurity matters linked to the deployment of autonomous and connected vehicle technology, including:

  • The technology
  • Declaration of Amsterdam
  • Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)
  • EU General Data Protection Regulation
  • ePrivacy Directive
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data accessibility
  • Liability
  • EU AI Act
  • eCall
  • Data preservation and data production in the context of criminal proceedings
  • International
  • Practical issues

For further coverage of other principal legal questions related to this technology, see Practice Note: Automated vehicles—key legal issues in the EU, and for a timeline and headline information, see Practice Note: EU automated vehicles—tracker. To monitor UK developments, see Practice Notes: Autonomous vehicles—key legal issues, Autonomous and connected vehicles—data protection and privacy issues, and UK automated vehicles—tracker.

The technology

Contemporary vehicles already incorporate various external communications tools, including satellite navigation, on-board entertainment and emergency assistance, which can automatically transmit exact location data to the emergency services...

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James Boyle
James Boyle

James is a Partner in the Data Group of Mishcon's Innovation Department. He specialises in offering nuanced, strategic counsel in privacy and data protection matters. His clients are typically fast growth SaaS, AI and digital health businesses.  His work extends to breached credentials compliance projects for cybersecurity firms that safeguard key industrial sectors. He has also consulted on data residency and hosting structures for fraud prevention networks that handle in excess of 300 million transactions annually, and designed and implemented global privacy training modules, delivered to over 100,000 staff members in publicly-listed companies. He leads the outsourced Data Protection Officer and EU Representative service lines....

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