Platform to Track and Manage Deletion of Personal Information in Vehicles Now Available in the UK and EU
LONDON, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Fimatix UK Ltd, a leading Digital Technology Services Consultancy, announced today a new distribution partnership with Privacy4Cars, the first-of-its-kind platform designed to help erase Personal Information (PI) from modern vehicles. The partnership will bring Privacy4Cars' patent-pending process for the deletion of PI, including phone numbers, call logs, location history and garage door codes, from modern vehicles to the European market for the first time. Developed by a world-renowned cybersecurity and vehicle privacy expert, Privacy4Cars offers a standard process that makes data deletion simple and scalable.
Committed to developing solutions that make organisations more effective, Fimatix has a strong track record in fintech and govtech and is a leading Digital Technology Services Consultancy. This new partnership will help to solve the privacy compliance risks faced by companies that handle vehicles. Research in 2020, by the consumer organisation Which?, highlighted that four in five UK vehicle owners took insufficient steps to remove personal data before selling their vehicles. PI is a rising compliance and reputation risk for auto remarketing businesses. For dealers, auctions, fleet managers, and others who handle used vehicles, failure to remove personal data before a vehicle changes hands could have major legal implications and represent data breaches under GDPR - as pointed out by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in their Guidelines for Connected Vehicles and Mobility Applications published in 2020. Through the use of the Privacy4Cars platform, companies with an auto portfolio in the UK and EU can now reliably, rapidly, and intuitively delete any personal information that is stored in modern vehicle systems, and obtain a ..
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