Intelligence agencies and government authorities are planning to implement comprehensive surveillance in vehicles.
A committee of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute is working hard on this.
Not only representatives of the automotive industry attend these meetings, but also police and intelligence agencies.
Germany is represented by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), several state criminal police offices, the Federal
Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and the Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector.
The collected data will continue to be accessible to intelligence agencies, the police, the Office for the Protection of
the Constitution, and law enforcement agencies—in real time.
The data affected comes from the vehicle's electronic systems and from smartphones connected to them.
The actual routes traveled are already being recorded.
In addition, the planned routes are to be transmitted from the vehicle's navigation system, which will allow
conclusions to be drawn about the driver's intentions.
Just as all movements and activities on smartphones are already being monitored, there
will now be no privacy left in cars either.
Are all these surveillance measures really intended to protect us, or are there entirely different interests at play?
Significantly, the recording of mileage and driving speeds could even make a climate policy monitoring system conceivable.
It is now up to every car buyer to resist this new technology.
Unless, of course, you prefer a system of total surveillance.