Name: Albert

Family Name: HELD

Affiliation: Daimler AG, Ulm

Short BIO

Albert Held works with Daimler Research & Development in the field of IT security and privacy for vehicles for more than 10 years. He is/was project manager of multiple internal research projects on IT security and privacy and was actively involved in German and European research projects (e.g, COMCAR, DRiVE, SeVeCom). He holds a Dr.-Ing. degree in computer science from the Technical University of Dresden.

Title of the presentation

Privacy Protection in ITS: a holistic approach is needed

Abstract

The contribution describes some of the various aspects a car manufacturer has to take into account regarding data protection and privacy. These range from different customer expectations depending on the customer’s age and nationality, different legislations in different countries to the various possibilities to uniquely identify a car, it’s owner and it’s users. For example, besides the identifiers and data related to in-car applications, there are license plates, VINs (Vehicle Identification Number) on the windscreen, wireless sensors in tires, toll collect systems and network addresses of the car’s wireless communication systems. Most of these are handled differently by different organizations and not all can be protected by the appropriate PETs (Privacy Enhancing Technology). With future smart vehicles and Web 2.0 on every mobile phone, the situation will not improve.

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