A Look at the Legal Environment for Driverless Vehicles (2016) / Chapter Skim
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61 court ruled that the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure restriction "protects people, not places."474 Katz and decisions following it suggest that the privacy expectations of people using driverless vehicles would be protected under the Fourth Amendment. Although older court decisions sometimes described privacy expectations of people in motor vehicles as ranging from very low to virtually absent,475 people in vehicles do have constitutionally protected reasonable expectations of privacy.
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62 place. One of the central issues posed in Jones was whether the defendant had reasonable privacy expectations protected by the Fourth Amendment as he drove his wife's car around the Washington, D.C., area for a month with a hidden government-installed GPS tracking device capturing every move the vehicle made.
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63 vehicles.499 In the absence of operational regulations that permit the general public to operate driverless vehicles beyond the testing phase, it is difficult to predict either specific DMV driverless vehicle recordkeeping requirements or the privacy protections for personal information associated with driverless vehicles.
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64 222 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 provides privacy protection for what the Act calls "consumer proprietary network information" (CPNI) .508 The Act defines CPNI as "information that relates to the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location, and amount of use of a telecommunications service subscribed to by any customer of a telecommunications carrier, and that is made available to the carrier by the customer solely by virtue of the carrier-customer relationship," as well as information contained in conventional telephone bills.509 The FCC has been aggressive in enforcing CPNI privacy protections,510 as they apply to mobile wireless Internet access providers.
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65 personal information security and physical security from stalkers, many of these issues also involve security, Section VII.C, infra.
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66 material to a criminal investigation.527 Court decisions have taken varied approaches to permitting law enforcement access to mobile device information held by telecommunications carriers under the Stored Communications Act.528 National security access to driverless vehicle data is governed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) 529 and portions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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67 endangering the vehicle, its contents, and those around it. Driverless vehicle communications (disclosing, for example, the vehicle's location or intended destination)
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68 Technical research is under way regarding these and other driverless vehicle security issues.540 However, security standards are not yet in place.541 In 2014, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers established a program to collect and share information about existing or potential cyber-related threats and vulnerabilities in motor vehicle electronics or networks. They established a formal Information Sharing and Analysis Center (called an Auto-ISAC)
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