U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla (Tesla) announced Tuesday night (25) on microblogging, has established a data center in China, all the data generated by the sale of vehicles in the Chinese market, will be stored in the territory, in order to achieve “data storage localization”, and will continue to add more Chinese data centers.
Tesla said it will open its vehicle information inquiry platform to vehicle owners and is working closely on this work; it also said it is honored to discuss with industry experts on the “Certain Provisions on Automotive Data Security Management (Draft for Comments)” and stressed that it firmly supports the standardized development of the industry and will make every effort to implement automotive data security management.
China’s National Internet Information Office released the “Automotive Data Security Management Provisions (Draft for Public Opinion)” in mid-month, which explicitly lists the data on human and vehicular traffic in important and sensitive areas such as military administration areas, national defense science and industry units involving state secrets, and party and government organs at or above the county level as “important data”, and requires that personal information or important data should be “In accordance with the law, personal information or important data should be stored in the territory; if it is necessary to provide outside the country, it should pass the data exit security assessment organized by the national network information department.
Foreign news reported earlier that some Chinese government departments have banned Tesla cars from parking in office areas and military-sensitive facilities, fearing that the electric cars could collect data through cameras and other instruments and transmit it back to the United States. Previously, some Chinese auto experts also said that Tesla had transmitted sensitive Chinese data back to the United States, jeopardizing China’s national security.
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