China-Singapore Jingwei Client, May 26 (Fu Yumei) The data dispute in the Tesla rights defense event ushered in the latest development.
On the 25th, Tesla officially announced on social media that the company has established a data center in China to localize data storage and will continue to add more local data centers.
All data generated from sales of vehicles in the Chinese mainland market will be stored in China.
Not long ago, the National Internet Information Office issued the "Regulations on the Security Management of Automobile Data (Draft for Comment)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") to set a security boundary for automobile data.
Experts pointed out that Tesla's statement will promote the standardized management of automobile data.
Tesla's data battle
The "Regulations" divide data into personal information and important data. It is not only for automakers, but also component and software providers, dealers, maintenance organizations, online car-hailing companies, and insurance companies. "Operators" ranks.
The "Regulations" proposed that operators should obtain the consent of the person being collected to collect personal information, except where the laws and regulations do not require personal consent.
If it is difficult to achieve in practice (such as collecting audio and video information outside the car through a camera) and it is necessary to provide it, it should be anonymized or desensitized, including deleting images that can identify natural persons, or identifying human faces in these images, etc. Perform local contouring and so on.
It is worth noting that after the release of the "Regulations", Tesla's official Weibo has reposted it and stated that it supports and responds to the development of the industry to further standardize and jointly promote technological innovation.
In the view of Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the National Passenger Car Market Information Joint Council, the promulgation of the "Regulations" is not necessarily related to the Tesla incident, but the Tesla incident undoubtedly reflects many data governance issues and promotes the discussion and resolution of related issues. .
Tesla has recently caused a number of disputes over the data of intelligent connected cars.
In the rights protection event at the Shanghai Auto Show in April, "data" has become the focus of contention between Tesla and the rights defending car owners.
First, the car owner claimed that Tesla was unwilling to provide data, and later questioned Tesla's tampering with the data, and then claimed that after Tesla provided the data to the media, it would sue it for infringement of privacy.
In addition, Tesla has also received attention due to camera monitoring issues.
Previously on social media, a "green god" known as the Tesla hacker god, in order to check the monitoring effect of the camera in the car, extracted the shots of the camera in the Tesla car and shared two periods of day and night. Shooting effect.
It can be seen from the video that the clarity and color richness of the video images recorded by the camera in the car during the day have exceeded many people's expectations, and the passengers in the car can basically be viewed clearly.
On April 7th, @ Tesla Customer Support Weibo posted a response on this matter, stating that the camera in the cab is currently not activated in markets outside of North America.
Even in the United States, car owners can freely choose whether to turn on the use.
Tesla is equipped with the world's leading security level network security system to ensure user privacy protection.
It is worth noting that on April 28, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee issued the draft standard "Safety Requirements for Data Collection of Information Security Technology Networked Vehicles" for public comments.
The draft pointed out that the data of roads, buildings, terrain, traffic participants and other data collected from the environment outside the car through cameras, radars and other sensors, as well as vehicle location and trajectory related data, are not available to the world; the driving state parameters of the connected car, abnormal warning If data such as information needs to be exported, it shall comply with relevant national regulations on data export.
Experts: Tesla's establishment of a data center will be meaningful
Tesla, on the cusp of the storm, also attaches great importance to data issues.
This year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk directly stated at the China Development Forum that Tesla will never provide the U.S. government with any vehicle and user data collected in China or other countries. Sla Corporation uses vehicle data to steal user privacy information including China, and we will be shut down."
In Cui Dongshu's view, Tesla's decision to establish a data center in China will have important driving significance.
"Automotive data security is extremely important. We must emphasize localization and standardized management. In addition, data itself also bears the responsibility of information security, and we must pay more attention to the use between different countries."
Cui Dongshu also said that in the past in the automotive industry, data management has always been in a state of "blindfolded running", and there are many irregularities.
The Tesla incident can serve as a warning to the industry to prevent consumer data from being misused.
But compared to the storage of data, Cui Dongshu believes that it is not easy to achieve a truly standardized management of the use of data.
"Consumer privacy is actually a serious problem. Especially now, when many smart companies enter the market to build cars, data will become a competitive resource. Therefore, data management must be further strengthened in the future to prevent disorderly development of enterprises."
In the case of Tesla owners' rights protection, the question of whether driving data involves consumer privacy has been raised.
Chen Yinjiang, deputy secretary-general of the China Consumer Rights Protection Law Research Association, in an interview with Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, believes that consumers’ driving data should belong to the scope of consumers’ personal information, and operators should collect and use consumers’ personal information. With the consumer's consent, that is, without informing and obtaining the consumer's consent, it is not allowed to collect and use arbitrarily, including public data.
In the announcement on the 25th, Tesla also said: "We will open the vehicle information query platform to car owners. This work is in full swing, and the details and progress will be reported to everyone."
On the other hand, while data problems continue to advance, Tesla's sales in the Chinese market ushered in a decline.
According to statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Tesla (Shanghai) sold 25,845 vehicles in April.
After removing the export data, Tesla's sales in China were 11,671 vehicles, a sharp drop of 67.10% from 35,478 vehicles in March.
Cui Dongshu pointed out that the decline in Tesla's sales is not necessarily related to the auto show event, but is due to the characteristics of quarterly sales.
However, Tesla's recent statements still reflect its emphasis on the Chinese market and the acceleration of its own localization process.
(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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