Modern cars technologies are evolving quickly. They collect a variety of personal data and treat it on behalf of the car manufacturer to improve the drivers' experience. The precise terms of such a treatment are stated within the privacy policies accepted by the user when buying a car or through the infotainment system when it is first started. This paper uses a double lens to assess people's privacy while they drive a car. The first approach is objective and studies the readability of privacy policies that comes with cars. We analyse the privacy policies of twelve car brands and apply well-known readability indices to evaluate the extent to which privacy policies are comprehensible by all drivers. The second approach targets drivers' opinions to extrapolate their privacy concerns and trust perceptions. We design a questionnaire to collect the opinions of 88 participants and draw essential statistics about them. Our combined findings indicate that privacy is insufficiently understood at present as an issue deriving from driving a car, hence future technologies should be tailored to make people more aware of the issue and to enable them to express their preferences.
翻译:现代汽车技术正在迅速发展,它们收集各种个人数据,并代表汽车制造商处理这些数据,以改善驾驶员的经验。这种处理的准确条件在用户购买汽车时接受的隐私政策中或通过最初开始的信息系统说明。本文使用双镜头评估驾驶汽车的人的隐私。第一种方法是客观的,研究汽车带来的隐私政策的可读性。我们分析12个汽车品牌的隐私政策,并采用众所周知的可读性指数来评价所有驾驶员都能理解隐私政策的程度。第二种办法是针对驾驶员的意见,以推断他们的隐私关切和信任感。我们设计一个问卷,收集88名参加者的意见,并收集他们的基本统计数据。我们的综合调查结果表明,目前对隐私作为驾驶汽车产生的一个问题的理解不够充分,因此,未来的技术应当专门设计,以使人们更加了解这一问题,使他们能够表达自己的偏好。