Remote hacking and data harvesting of connected cars trigger Australian experts to raise national security and privacy alarms | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

Authoritarian regimes could harvest and weaponise sensitive data from electric vehicle drivers, issue orders to remotely kill their car engines, switch off their headlights in the dark or disable airbags, experts say, unless Australia updates its privacy and cybersecurity laws.

Consumer rights groups and cybersecurity experts have warned the failure of Australian laws to keep pace with modern vehicle technology, including software and data capabilities, poses major data privacy and national security risks.

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