Driver Privacy Act of 2015

Publicatiedatum: 
23 augustus 2016
Vergaderdatum: 
23 augustus 2016

An increasing number of companies have been installing or otherwise using some of the latest monitoring technologies in vehicles driven by employees – whether those vehicles are owned by the company or the employee – usually for safety and/or logistics management. These technologies include “event data recorders” or EDRs that capture a range of information just prior to or during a crash event. Seeking to address privacy concerns for data collected on EDRs, the Driver Privacy Act of 2015 (“Act”) was enacted as part of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (H.R. 22), signed by President Obama on Friday, December 4, 2015. Companies that have vehicle monitoring programs should review this new law.