In our
previous post, we explained how the US November 3rd
election resulted in developments that were overlooked. Namely, the
expansion of the recreational and medicinal cannabis market.
Another underreported but critical development took place in
Massachusetts where Bay Staters voted en mass to require car
makers to give car owners and their independent mechanics
access to their vehicle's mechanical telematic data by
2022.
We believe Canada will soon follow Mass' leap forward, but
this leap may carry with it significant consumer privacy
implications.
Why is this an important issue?
As car makers implement more technology into the cars we drive,
our cars become increasingly complicated. There was a time, which
some of us remember, when cars were purely mechanical vehicles with
no computers. But those days are long gone. Cars now have several
onboard computers, and often, to diagnose an issue, mechanics need
access to those computers.
