What they, and EU regulators, have never spelled out is what happens to that footage after the alert goes off.

That's actually not true.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation that harmonizes national data privacy laws throughout the EU and enhances the protection of all EU residents with respect to their personal data. This harmonization creates new rights for individuals and a set of stronger and clearer rules for businesses. The GDPR applies to all companies handling the personal data of EU residents, including companies established outside the EU if they offer goods or services to EU residents or monitor their behaviour. The GDPR entered into force on May 25, 2018.

Updated:

Updated definition of personal data: Location data and online identifiers are now expressly included in the definition of personal data.

Comprehensive record-keeping obligation: Records are used to demonstrate compliance.

Stricter definition of consent: Specific, informed and unambiguous consent must be freely given by a statement or by clear affirmative action. Individuals can withdraw their consent at any time.

New rights for individuals: Individuals have the right to access, transfer, correct and restrict their personal data and to ask that it be destroyed.

New requirement to appoint a data protection officer: Companies processing personal data on a large scale must appoint a data protection officer.

New data breach notification requirement: Competent supervisory authorities within the EU must generally be informed within 72 hours of a personal data breach.

Diversified toolkit of mechanisms: The toolkit is provided to lawfully transfer data outside the EU; the transfer is subject to specific conditions and safeguards.

Penalties for non-compliance: Companies would be subject to fines of up to 4% of global annual turnover or €20 million, whichever is higher.

Early real-world testing suggests the distraction warnings can be overly sensitive and potentially distracting.

Also not true.

EFF or some other privacy org should set up a shop that specializes in removing this cruft from new vehicles, to bait a legal fight with the government or car industry.

All I know is that this technology is universally loathed in the US.

I don't expect it to last.

5-25% of car crashes come from distracted drivers huh? How about you provide good viable alternatives to driving? That's how you best solve road deaths. More trains, trams, buses and cycling routes.

The article is right to critizice the lack of checking the systems for breaches, but the law is pretty clear on how the data can be used legally.

The law requiring the camera also requires the system to be a closed loop, and also that no personal data is processed.

Since it's illegal to use the data for anything other than showing the warnings inside the car, it is unlikely that it would get used in case of accidents, unless the car manufacturers are willing to admit to breaking the law.

I'm sure insurance companies would also love to see how their customers drive, but I don't think this is in the interest of the car manufacturers who potentially and illegally hold the data.

I was thinking about how this technology is supposed to be forced on us in the US before long just a couple of hours ago, as I drove down a highway at twilight, with deer frequently spotted on the side of the road. It occurred to me that I would probably be flagged as not paying attention because I was regularly darting my eyes to the sides of the road very briefly for an extended period of time. Because I don't want to kill or be killed by deer while driving.

Will it be illegal to drive around with the camera accidentally punctured by a nail? Asking for a european.

I recently accepted a new job, and it will come with a new company car.

If I'm unlucky enough to have a model that was sold after this rule goes into effect, I'm going to be taping up the camera.. I don't want a camera pointed at my face for hours, no matter how well-intentioned.

Fuck cars and all, but this will be a privacy nightmare.

With half the population priced out of new cars, possibly permanently, this will be fun to watch unfold

I'll draw a nose and eyes on my arse cheeks then take a picture of it as I bend over and spread . Tape that picture over the camera.

Enjoy snooping a look at that, nosey cunts.

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/06/tesla-driver-monitoring-doll-head/

This...is good! Carbrain has long argued that the issue with vehicle collision and vehicle violence against pedestrian is not due to the insane amount of car on the road or the speed of a car being driven or the size of it, but all due to driver's inability to control themselves and get themselves distracted so often, or being impatient, so now they're constantly being watched, everyone should be safe now. Right?

To me this is what incompetant governance, that tries and fails to even look competent, looks like. Our politicians are blind to real systemic issues underlying them. Someday, the reality check will come to collect. I hope it's sooner, rather than later.