Recently, Byd Company Limited(002594) and Dongfeng Nissan's cars have disabled the remote photographing function. It is understood that the "clairvoyant" and remote photographing and other similar functions of the above two brands have been discontinued at present because they meet the requirements of the latest national regulations.
Experts interviewed told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter that remote photographing function may involve passers-by's facial information, which belongs to sensitive personal information. In addition, this function may capture important data such as geographic information, personnel flow and vehicle flow of important sensitive areas
Byd Company Limited(002594) , Dongfeng Nissan deactivates remote shooting function
It is understood that Dongfeng Nissan recently released a push saying that in response to the requirements of national data security regulations and the protection of the owner's privacy, it is planned to close the remote photographing function of Nissan Zhilian app and the photo sharing and uploading function in vehicle terminal DVR on March 31.
The remote photographing function has also been disabled recently, as well as Byd Company Limited(002594) . It is reported that Byd Company Limited(002594) the "clairvoyant" function, which can remotely view the image of the camera outside the vehicle, is no longer available Byd Company Limited(002594) officials said that according to the requirements of the latest national regulations, the image function outside the vehicle is being upgraded.
In this regard, Byd Company Limited(002594) customer service responded to the 21st Century Business Herald reporter that at present, cars collect video and image data outside the car. If it is necessary to provide them outside the car, the face and license sector information in the data should be anonymously processed at the car end. At present, the Qianliyan function is being optimized based on the requirements of this law, so it is temporarily unable to provide Qianliyan to call the image service outside the car.
Shi Yuhang, a lawyer from Shanghai Huiye law firm, told the 21st Century Business Herald that the remote photographing function may involve passers-by's facial information, which may be used for facial recognition and belongs to sensitive personal information. In addition, this function may capture important data such as geographic information, personnel flow and vehicle flow of important sensitive areas.
In October 2021, several regulations on automobile data security management (Trial) (hereinafter referred to as the regulations) were officially implemented, which advocates that automobile data processors should adhere to the principles of in vehicle processing and desensitization in carrying out automobile data processing activities. At the same time, the regulations also specify that the video and image data outside the vehicle including face information and license sector information are important data.
However, in order to ensure driving safety, the regulations require that if it is impossible to obtain personal consent to collect personal information outside the vehicle and provide it to the outside of the vehicle, it shall be anonymized, including deleting the picture containing natural persons, or locally contouring the face information in the picture.
"Without the consent of the law on the protection of personal information of vehicle owners and other vehicle manufacturers, it may pose a risk to collect personal data without the consent of the law on the protection of vehicle owners and other laws and regulations." Shi Yuhang said.
re plan interactive functions
In 2021, the first year of intelligent Internet connected vehicle data security will come. With the implementation of the data security law and the personal information protection law, there has been a big outbreak of supervision in the field of intelligent connected vehicles. At the same time, the regulatory authorities and the public are gradually aware of the strong data collection and analysis ability of automobiles.
On March 9, 2022, China Automobile Industry Association issued the letter of China Automobile Industry Association on Soliciting Opinions on three group standards, including technical requirements and methods of vehicle transmission video and image desensitization, which mentioned that the group standard draft and preparation instructions including technical requirements and methods of vehicle transmission video and image desensitization have been completed and solicited opinions from the society.
"The laws, regulations and industry standard system on automobile data security management are becoming more and more perfect. Therefore, automobile enterprises will also improve their automobile data security management standards based on these industry standards." Gao Ruiming, a lawyer at Beijing deheheng (Guangzhou) law firm, said.
At present, the intelligent networked vehicle may be one of the most powerful devices in data collection and processing in daily life. In particular, in order to realize the functions of automatic driving and auxiliary driving, a large number of on-board sensors are needed to collect data from the vehicle driving, inside and outside the cockpit.
Gao Ruiming believes that at the policy level, it is still necessary to speed up the formulation of the corresponding standard system of automobile data security, so as to help the practice of automobile data security protection
According to Shi Yuhang, more car companies will adjust the remote photographing function in the future. He also mentioned that many interactive functions of intelligent connected vehicles need to be re planned, sort out the data flow of intelligent connected vehicles, and strengthen the notification of data collection and use between car owners and the public, so as to facilitate the public to understand the situation of data processing.
