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Driving Dystopia: Connected Vehicle Data Now Up For Grabs By Intelligence Agencies

The Truth About Cars

Connected vehicles now appear to be on the table as a new vector for government surveillance. All of that is now appears to be up for grabs, along with the vehicle's positional data and any calls or text made while using it. They’re just worried about who gets to control it.

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Hyundai upgrading Bluelink connected car services technology; Connected Routing, Last Mile Navigation

Green Car Congress

Hyundai Motor is upgrading its Bluelink connected car services technology with a range of new features. Connected Routing. With the new cloud-based Connected Routing navigation, driving routes are calculated on a server inside the Bluelink cloud environment, rather than through the car’s infotainment system. Speed cameras.

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Foremost Group CEO’s blood alcohol content nearly 3x the legal limit during fatal Tesla accident: report

Teslarati

legal limit to drive in public roads in Texas. Authorities reportedly had some difficulty extracting the CEO from her ill-fated Model X despite an opened back passenger door, though they were finally able to remove her from the vehicle when they broke a side window. A statement from her father, Dr. James S.C.

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Law firm Akerman launches EV infrastructure-oriented legal team – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

One of these new units is the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Team, which “provides its clients, including businesses, municipalities and universities, with the diverse legal services needed to further the transportation transformation for automated, connected and electric vehicles.”

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Verizon acquiring Telogis to enhance connected vehicle business

Green Car Congress

to add best-in-class Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology and services—specifically in the connected vehicle and mobile enterprise management sectors—as well as expanded distribution relationships to its Verizon Telematics subsidiary. Verizon Communications Inc. signed an agreement to purchase Telogis, Inc.

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SpaceX wins FCC approval to connect Starlink satellites to moving vehicles

Teslarati

Eleven months after SpaceX submitted several applications, the FCC has given the company permission to connect moving vehicles to its constellation of Starlink internet satellites. For flights, cruises, and all other vehicles traveling outside the range of SpaceX’s growing selection of ground stations, Starlink V1.5

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ON Semiconductor to acquire Quantenna Communications; connectivity applications for industrial and automotive markets

Green Car Congress

The acquisition significantly enhances ON Semiconductor’s connectivity portfolio and expertise in power management and Bluetooth technologies with the addition of Quantenna’s Wi-Fi technology and software capabilities. No approval of the stockholders of ON Semiconductor is required in connection with the proposed transaction.

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