| |DECEMBER 20188INDIAN AUTO INDUSTRY GEARS UP TO DATA PROTECTIONBy Praveen Sasidharan, Partner, Deloitte IndiaDeloitte is a multi-skilled, multi-disciplined firm, offering clients a wide range of industry-focused business solutions. In India, Deloitte delivers a range of Risk Advisory, Tax, Consulting and Financial Advisory services across thirteen cities.he automo-tive industry is transforming by virtue of lucra-tive innovations. There is signif-icant buzz around how cars are becoming autonomous with ad-vanced technology features. `Fu-ture of mobility' is no longer a concept; it is being demonstrat-ed in reality. However, there are numerous concerns which are yet to be addressed in this stride, and `data ownership and us-age' is one of the leading areas of quandary. Almost every passenger/commercial vehicle would soon be communicating through mobile de-vices (Vehicle to Person), with traffic infrastructure (Vehicle to Infrastructure) and with each other (Ve-hicle to Vehicle). Whenever there is a communica-tion, data is exchanged, used, stored, purged and transferred within/without geographical bound-aries. This data could be customer data (age, demo-graphic, house address, preferences, location, etc.) or vehicle-related data such as Vehicle ID (VID), Chassis number, etc.To facilitate a connected ecosystem, the data from the Connected Vehicle or Autonomous Vehi-cle (Self-Driving Vehicle) would have to be shared with Dealers, Service Providers, Insurance provid-ers, Content providers (such as AV distributors), vehicle man-ufacturers, etc. Adding to this complexity, the Original Equip-ment Manufacturers (OEMs) are building cars using tech-nology sourced from different component providers such as steering wheel manufacturers, tyre manufacturers, ADAS pro-viders, etc. These component providers, in turn, collect data related to the performance of their components to unique-ly identify the behaviour of each element and how it is being used. With the value-chain being so intricate, who ulti-mately owns the data ­ whether it is the owner of the car, car manufacturer, component manufacturer or the content providers ­ becomes a critical question. Lawmakers, law enforcement agencies, lawyers, auto-industry groups, component manufacturers, consumer groups, service providers, or dealers ­ all have varied responses to the question.A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court head-ed by Chief Justice JS Khehar declared privacy as a fundamental right for Indian citizens under the Constitution of India on August 24, 2017. In addi-tion to that, once the Draft Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB) 2018 is enacted and enforced, privacy would no longer be optional. Among many signif-TPraveen Sasidharanexpert opinion
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