ProTACD: A Generic Privacy Process for Vehicle Development

The growth in information technology and connectivity has enabled a significant range of new functionalities in modern automobiles, such as telematics wireless interfaces via Wi-Fi. At the same time, the protection of privacy is becoming a major concern and questions are being raised regarding the need for current privacy concepts to be extended or even replaced by integrative and structured privacy approaches. This might be necessary to uncover isolated and unexpected privacy threats, e.g., tracking of multiple in-car wireless sensors. We identify the key challenges for privacy enforcement in the vehicle´s lifecycle and propose a generic, yet integrative, privacy process for vehicle development (ProTACD). The final decision to enforce and deploy privacy features in vehicular development requires several prerequisites to be provided by ProTACD. In this paper, we outline the phases and interactions of ProTACD, and discuss its general objectives and differences from other approaches.