Privacy-Practices in the Mobile Communicative Space of the Connected Vehicle

The project “Privacy-Practices in the Mobile Communicative Space of the Connected Vehicle” (Original German Title “Privatheitspraktiken im Mobilen Kommunikationsraum des Vernetzten Fahrzeugs”) was part of the interdisciplinary consortium “Self-Data Protection in the Connected Vehicle” under the leadership of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology. With the project we wanted to find out how users’ privacy can be protected in spaces in which every spoken word and action can be recorded, assessed online and reacted to. Therefore, qualitative and quantitative studies were conducted: In interviews and observations with drivers of connected vehicles, we studied how people deal with the technologies and issues of data protection in their everyday life. A representative survey of the German population shows how knowledge, attitude, acceptance and behaviors are generally spread in regards to educational differences. Finally experiments on the usage of new data protection devices were developed and carried out as part of the consortium.

In the interdisciplinary project communication scientists affiliated at the university of Hohenheim collaborated with experts for technical solutions of data protection (Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Darmstadt), with agents of data protection authorities (Independent Data Protection Center Schleswig-Holstein, the data protection officer of Hessen, the Federal Office for Information Security), experts of usability (TU-Darmstadt) and automobile manufacturers (Volkswagen, Daimler, Accessec GmbH).

Contact person

Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte
sabine.trepte@uni-hohenheim.de

Prof. Dr. Thilo von Pape

Project website: https://sedafa-projekt.de/