What China’s New Data Rules Mean for Tesla and Other Auto Makers | WSJ

China's new rules on auto data require car companies to store important data locally

Cars today offer high-tech features and gather troves of data to train algorithms. As China steps up controls over new technologies, WSJ looks at the risks for Tesla and other global brands that are now required to keep data within the country. Screenshot: Tesla China

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[DougOfTheAntarctic]

Musk appears to be speaking on a hostage video.

[laldingliana]

It seems like common sense for every country to store their data locally. Even India is demanding this.

[krishnachaitanya]

Data should be given to local governments every where across globe

[terry]

This is so reasonable. I mean would US allow its own data to store in China? Of course not

[yaweichen]

Not just China, all the other no-US countries should order Tesla, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc, to store the data locally too, instead of transferring to the US

[apolodelsol]

Privacy, once again, seems to be not a relevant issue: there will never be security in data recollection.

[pervyswagg]

CHINA: we have many money u want?

FOREIGNER AUTO MAKER: yes pls

[bobbbobb]

The unanswered question is if China built Tesla’s that are exported will have to send their data back to the motherland.

[PG-tcos]

Now Nio will have a better advantage if this takes place.

[desperado]

Everything is "national security" lol

[Daniel]

The last graph was hard to read, all 3 car manufacturers where blue

[aberba]

I don't think automakers need to transfer data outside any country. Process it local, transfer the trained models. Models aren't data. Data stays locally.

[ev.c]

All countries do that. In the US the NSA has its own Google to browse all sorts of datas about people around the world. China is just doing its business.
For Tesla the best thing to do is to have a RD department in China to handle the data from there.

[paulb]

I can see the sense in these rules, I imagine Tesla vehicles using cameras would be ‘sensing’ it’s surroundings around a military, naval or airforce base, Area 51? Could they easily be adapted to record and stream for nefarious reasons? Hence Lidar vs Camera data gathering would carry different risks. Would reversing cameras would surely be an issue?

[jerrykindlin]

EV vehicles (including Tesla) has caused many accidents on the road as well as during charging. Before EV could improve their reliability, it is good to see these data collected. So if an incident occur, the data judged by independent 3rd party to determine the cause and protect consumer rights.

[willtabacchi]

The darn music makes it near impossible to understand the news. Apparently google news believes the music is more important than the news. When will they wake up?

[untouchablex]

Why does WSJ report on China and bashing Tesla so much?

[Carfeu]

I love it that no one calls China a dictatorship, which it is.

[kerriwoollard]

Investing in crypto now should be in every individuals list, in few months from now you show be ecastisity about the decision you made.

[lumpython]

When people think China is absolutely bad without a hesitate or doubt, Chinese government will violate data privacy, however, Apple releases privacy data requests report periodically globally, it seems show a different story, despite China has huge population and iPhone users, China has incredibly low number of government data requests.