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Automotive Privacy Principles Community Group

Vehicles are becoming increasingly connected, enabling rich data and useful services. A major obstacle to transportation's information transformation is better protection of personal privacy. The Mozilla Foundation properly called in out in their assessment It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy.

The goal of this Community Group is to create guiding principles specific to the automotive industry and to work in conjunction with COVESA in prototyping and promoting appropriate solutions.

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Call for Participation in Automotive Privacy Principles Community Group

The Automotive Privacy Principles Community Group has been launched:


Vehicles are becoming increasingly connected, enabling rich data and useful services. A major obstacle to transportation’s information transformation is better protection of personal privacy. The Mozilla Foundation properly called in out in their assessment It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy.

The goal of this Community Group is to create guiding principles specific to the automotive industry and to work in conjunction with COVESA in prototyping and promoting appropriate solutions.


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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2024-01-03 by Ted Guild. The following people supported its creation: Ted Guild, Ulf Bjorkengren, Rudolf Streif, Ansgar Gerlicher, Paul Boyes. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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