Privacy concerns have been raised in conjunction with the usage of AI. Protecting the privacy of individuals needs to be considered in all AI development steps from the establishment of the training datasets to the final product.
The European Union has agreed upon and published several legislative acts recently to address the holistic perspective of digital technologies: the Data Act, the AI Act, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Privacy has been addressed since 2016 by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, and the new pieces of legislation have the privacy and safety of individuals at their cores.
Road vehicles put on the market in Europe must adhere to GDPR already and to the Data Act and AI Act once they become applicable in a couple of years. Of course, the AI Act must only be fulfilled if AI is used in the vehicle. Road vehicles are not in the scope of the CRA; instead, they are covered by the sectoral cybersecurity regulation UNECE R155 in Europe.
Full Article: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Volume 19, Number 1, March 2024 |