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French Regulator Investigating Dashcams

CNIL’s compliance unit for connected vehicles will turn its focus to dashcams, the French data protection regulator said Wednesday. CNIL said it had received much correspondence on the lack of a specific legal framework for these on-board cameras, which may infringe the privacy rights of those filmed, it said.

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The regulator’s automotive compliance unit initially focused on location data used by connected vehicles -- and soon plans to draft a recommendation on that subject, CNIL said.