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EU: “eCall” system: MEPs back deal with Council on automatic emergency call system for cars

06 December 2014

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The deal will "require all new car models to be equipped with eCall technology from 31 March 2018" and "preclude tracking of eCallequipped vehicle before the accident occurs" and that "ensure that data gathered by emergency centres or their service partners must not be transferred to third parties without explicit consent of the person concerned, the “data subject”.

The data protection clauses sound good now. But how long will it be before another "reason" emerges and demands are made to track and retain data and hand it over to "third parties"?

See: MEPs back deal with Council on automatic emergency call system for cars (Press release, pdf) and: Final-4-col-doc as agreed in trilogue meetings (with Council negotiating position deleted, pdf)

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