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Automakers Are Helping Chinese Government Monitor Every EV On The Road
Dec. 02, 2018 12:50 PM ET by Noah Joseph Government / 1 Comment Big Brother is watching Chinese EV drivers. Ever get the feeling that someone's watching you?
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Mia Anderson 1 minutes ago
Well they very well may be. Especially if you're driving an electric vehicle in China....
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Oliver Taylor 1 minutes ago
According to the Associated Press, quasi-governmental agencies in the so-called People's Republi...
Well they very well may be. Especially if you're driving an electric vehicle in China.
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Oliver Taylor 1 minutes ago
According to the Associated Press, quasi-governmental agencies in the so-called People's Republi...
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Charlotte Lee 1 minutes ago
But the information isn't being obtained covertly. It's being provided by their manufacturer...
According to the Associated Press, quasi-governmental agencies in the so-called People's Republic are tracking alternative-energy vehicles through a variety of parameters, including their location, make, model, mileage, and battery-charge levels... all in real time.
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Mason Rodriguez 7 minutes ago
But the information isn't being obtained covertly. It's being provided by their manufacturer...
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Ethan Thomas 11 minutes ago
The stated purpose is to help plan infrastructure requirements and to enhance public security. But t...
But the information isn't being obtained covertly. It's being provided by their manufacturers – both domestic automakers and by foreign automakers (like Tesla, General Motors, and BMW) that are eager to do business in the country. BMW GM Data collected by the automakers is transmitted to local monitoring agencies like the Shanghai Electric Vehicle Public Data Collecting, Monitoring and Research Center, which tracks over 222,000 vehicles (most of them electric passenger cars) in Shanghai.
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Alexander Wang 1 minutes ago
The stated purpose is to help plan infrastructure requirements and to enhance public security. But t...
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James Smith 3 minutes ago
"Tracking vehicles is one of the main focuses of their mass surveillance."
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The stated purpose is to help plan infrastructure requirements and to enhance public security. But the data is shared with a national monitoring center in Beijing, and can be shared with law enforcement on request.
"The government wants to know what people are up to at all times," said Maya Wang, senior China specialist at Human Rights Watch.
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Aria Nguyen 4 minutes ago
"Tracking vehicles is one of the main focuses of their mass surveillance."
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Aria Nguyen 1 minutes ago
They give you dozens of excuses. Then we offer the incentives....
"Tracking vehicles is one of the main focuses of their mass surveillance."
Volkswagen Though some foreign manufacturers initially resisted sharing the information, AP reports that many have acquiesced to the requirement as the "cost of doing business" in China, one of the largest and fastest-growing market for new cars in the world. "The automakers consider the data a precious resource," a government consultant told AP on condition of anonymity. "They gave you dozens of reasons why they can't give you the data.
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Isaac Schmidt 1 minutes ago
They give you dozens of excuses. Then we offer the incentives....
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Audrey Mueller 6 minutes ago
Then they want to give us the data because it's part of their profit." The market for such ...
They give you dozens of excuses. Then we offer the incentives.
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Nathan Chen 25 minutes ago
Then they want to give us the data because it's part of their profit." The market for such ...
Then they want to give us the data because it's part of their profit." The market for such data is estimated to be worth $750 billion by 2030.
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