Privacy4Cars and AutoIMS are providing visibility to consignors and auctions on the removal of non-public personal information previous owners and drivers may have left in consigned vehicles’ on-board systems, including previous destinations, home address, garage door codes, contact lists, call logs, text messages, device identifiers, and more.
Enterprise’s Assistant Vice President of Technology Innovation, Derik Reiser, spoke at the conference as one of four participants in a panel discussion sponsored by the Society of Collision Repair Specialists.
Vehicle users should consider deleting personal data from any and all vehicle infotainment systems before allowing anyone access to their vehicle.
The Privacy4Cars app enables consumers and businesses to quickly and efficiently delete personal data retained by modern vehicle infotainment systems.
Careem said it is working with law enforcement and cybercrime experts to fully understand what happened, how it happened, who exactly was affected, and what the ride-hailing group can do to prevent future attacks.
Since Sharky Laguana's stolen van incident, he has been working to pass a bill that "would shorten the process of reporting a rental car as embezzled to ease the process of recovering stolen vehicles for rental car companies."
Taking in the seminars, discussions, and networking at the 2016 Auto Rental Summit, trend lines emerged around shifts in model mix, data protection issues, increasing labor costs, workforce engagement, and new platforms to rent cars.