Welcome back. It's great to see you again. I hope you've been well. This is your Friday

dose of Emlex covering the top stories in regulatory affairs from around the globe. My name is

James Panicki. I'm Emlex's Asia-Pacific

Senior Editor, coming to you from the LexisNexis offices in Melbourne, Australia. Now, if you haven't

already read our analysis of how car manufacturers in the US are getting very assertive in

dealing with state-based privacy laws, well, don't waste another

moment. It's a truly intriguing story. And yes, I hear you ask the question, why would car

manufacturers be up in arms about privacy legislation? Surely that's something that we'd expect

from big tech. Well, the answer is simple.

Smart vehicles and the data they generate

are turning automobile producers into data giants.

The last thing they want are privacy laws

that put the kibosh on that nascent business model.

Our San Francisco-based senior reporter,

Shu Wan, has been covering the car industry's

increasing interest in data privacy legislation, and she joins us now.

Shu Wan, firstly, tell us something about this new trend in privacy legislation that you've

described in your article. Thanks, James. So the new trend that we've noticed is that automakers or like

OEMs and equipment makers in the automotive industry, they are increasingly present in the

proceedings of state legislation or rulemaking that have something to do with privacy or data security.

So there's clearly a growing interest there, but why is that? I mean, what kind of privacy

legislation are carmakers interested in? Yeah, so what we've been looking at is primarily

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