Can Chinese-made “smart cars” gather sensitive information about the Americans driving them? Federal authorities want to find out.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday connected cars “are like smart phones on wheels” and need to be investigated as automakers with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seek to flood the world with their four-wheeled products.
“These vehicles are connected to the internet. They collect huge amounts of sensitive data on the drivers — personal information, biometric information, where the car goes,’’ Raimondo told reporters according to AP.
“So it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to figure out how a foreign adversary like China, with access to this sort of information at scale, could pose a serious risk to our national security and the privacy of U.
