The FISMA Focus IPD

By Jules Polonetsky, contributor, and Lauren Smith

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All of this raises timely issues about the responsible collection and use of these data and how such data are communicated to consumers. Federal Trade Commissioner Terrell McSweeney recently told the Connected Cars USA Conference that “[t]he connected car is going to revolutionize mobility as profoundly as the first cars did … but we can only get there if the consumers trust the product they are getting into.”

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It is critical, at the front-end of the connected car revolution, to build responsible data practices into connected cars, just as we have in other new and unfamiliar technologies. Transportation policymakers have already been building in privacy considerations: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2014 issued an advisory to begin implementation of vehicle-to-vehicle communications technology, along with a report studying the issue. The study was based on the Fair Information Privacy Principles, the gold standard for privacy that establishes norms like data minimization, notice and choice, and transparency.