Balough Chairs Car Hacking Panel
(August 30, 2015) Recent headlines raise the specter of hackers taking over today’s new cars. To help attorneys know what to tell their clients about this new development, Richard C. Balough will chair a panel on steering around the legal potholes of autonomous vehicles at the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section annual meeting in Chicago.
The panel includes a consumer advocate, an attorney specializing in autonomous vehicle security issues, an attorney from the insurance industry, an IP attorney, and an advisor to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The discussion items include:
- The liability of businesses using autonomous vehicles either for delivery or for their employees.
- Intellectual property rights such as copyright protection and trade secrets.
- Data security both from the perspective of hacking and from disclosure of the data (privacy) of those using autonomous vehicles.
The session is set for Friday, September 18 from 8 to 10 a.m.