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Current EU legal frameworks, including the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, are inadequate for addressing the data governance challenges of connected and autonomous vehicles, necessitating a new governance model that integrates verification, operation, and compliance oversight alongside technical safeguards. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Investigate the legal classification, cross-border transmission, and processing of connected and autonomous vehicle data under European Union privacy law.

August 19, 2026ResearchOpen Access

Data, Power, and the Autonomous Vehicle: Legal and Cultural Challenges in Cross-Border Data Governance

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ZYZhangzhi YangThe University of Sydney

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Legal analysis demonstrates systemic privacy and transfer gaps in autonomous vehicle ecosystems, highlighting the need for blockchain access logs and compliance oversight.

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Investigate the legal classification, cross-border transmission, and processing of connected and autonomous vehicle data under European Union privacy law.
Conducted doctrinal legal analysis of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive (EPD).
Analyzed key regulatory actions and case law, including the Dutch DPA Tesla penalty (Case 2023-0012), Planet49 (C-673/17), EDPB Uber decision (AP-18/2022), and Bindl v European Commission (Case T-354/22).
Formulated a UN/CEFACT-inspired governance framework integrating localized encryption and blockchain-based access logs.
Identified systemic legal and operational gaps in obtaining valid user consent, ensuring sensor transparency, and regulating cross-border telemetry data transfers.
Proposed a ternary governance architecture separating verification, operational controls, and independent compliance oversight to protect user rights and algorithmic accountability.

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Zhangzhi Yang (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a85630603308d306e2d6134 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21964829

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Legal analysis demonstrates systemic privacy and transfer gaps in autonomous vehicle ecosystems, highlighting the need for blockchain access logs and compliance oversight.

Data, Power, and the Autonomous Vehicle: Legal and Cultural Challenges in Cross-Border Data Governance

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Data, Power, and the Autonomous Vehicle: Legal and Cultural Challenges in Cross-Border Data Governance

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