The Munich-based company Uniscon has won funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) for its data protection project CAR-BITS. within the framework of the Technology program “Smart Services World”. The program promotes the development of internet-based services for the German economy.
What happens to automatically collected data?
Sensors in the car detect whether the driver is overtired, automatic systems keep the driver in the lane or warn of the onset of a traffic jam – all of this, including self-driving cars, is playing an increasingly important role in road traffic and in public debate.
Because: What happens to the information
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Do systems automatically record data? Data from connected cars can be hacked, as a recent test from the US showed. At the same time, the operators of the central systems can also access the data.
The CAR-BITS project aims to address the enormous Amounts of data that yourch sensor systems in cars earise, data protection law to secure and thus to protect the driver’s right to informational self-determination.
The consortium leader Uniscon, based in Munich Technology Center MTZ, has invested in innovations to protect digital data since its founding, be it in a sealed cloud, through special data retention or legally compliant big data analyses that use technical measures to protect against third-party access.
Data security? Legal use of data
The technology promoted by CAR-BITS provides new applications in road traffic with a data protection and legal compliance orientation. The project aims to ensure that personal data is protected against misuse, such as unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction.
