MARCH 2024 - VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS - Privacy Risks and Recommendations

Impairment refers readings from the use of the device, and sometimes to the deterioration of a driver’s ability to safely the system can also track the length of time on the perform the driving task, either through a driver’s road, and any attempts to “disable or circumvent” the physiological and cognitive impairment or their device.17 Creating a log of alcohol intoxication readings blood alcohol. [...] It is be linked to a particular individual are numerous, attached to a sensor that would measure the mainly being the direct linkage of data to the alcohol content and, if above the limit, would not individual and the amount of information that can be allow the vehicle to move. [...] But unlike those data points that In the collection of data in any of these categories, may relate to driver behavior and vehicle function, not only do specific privacy risks need to be data related to alcohol impairment is a data point considered related to the intended purpose of the specifically about the health of an individual. [...] Third alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2021 alone.46 parties can act to undermine the confidentiality of the information, by making it available to either the The stated purpose of the mandate is to prevent general public or specific individuals or groups; the and decrease the number of serious accidents and integrity of the information, by adding or changing injuries that are caused by intoxic. [...] A the rule, acknowledge and recommend limitations on clear explanation of the technology should provide the collection, use, and data retention, and provide for its function and operation to allow drivers to a standard for vehicle manufacturers and those understand the technologies in their vehicle at the subjected to NHTSA rules on how to handle data point of sale, be it the first sale of a vehic.