Auto Data Privacy and Autonomy Act
Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill restricts how connected-vehicle data may be collected, shared, and transferred, gives vehicle owners more control and access rights, and assigns FTC enforcement.
Who Benefits and How
Vehicle owners and independent service providers could gain more data access and stronger protections against misuse or foreign transfer of driving data.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Automakers and connected-vehicle data platforms would face new handling, sharing, access, and enforcement requirements.
Key Provisions
- Defines the vehicle-data concepts regulated by the bill.
- Restricts disclosure, transfer, and certain foreign access to covered vehicle data.
- Requires owner access, control, and interoperable access tools such as APIs.
- Assigns FTC enforcement and limits funding to existing appropriations.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill restricts how connected-vehicle data may be collected, shared, and transferred, gives vehicle owners more control and access rights, and assigns FTC enforcement.
Key Policy Areas
Privacy, Transportation, Consumer Protection, Technology
Primary Purpose
This bill restricts how connected-vehicle data may be collected, shared, and transferred, gives vehicle owners more control and access rights, and assigns FTC enforcement.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Vehicle owners
- Independent repair and service providers
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Automakers and connected-vehicle data platforms
- Federal Trade Commission
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Automakers and connected-vehicle data platforms, Automakers protecting trade-secret and confidential business information
Positive-direction: Automakers protecting trade-secret and confidential business information
Negative-direction: Automakers and connected-vehicle data platforms
Federal Trade Commission, Federal agencies implementing the vehicle-data requirements
Foreign recipients seeking access to covered vehicle data
Independent vehicle repair businesses
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → Federal Trade Commission
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
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