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In Brief: Cars again!

Those seemingly-innocent driveway dwellers keep craftily sharing data – in fact, even in real time via V2X (a.k.a vehicle-to-everything), which is when your and my data is transmitted to other cars and via sensors along the road – think digital tolls. Now the US Department of Transportation is recommending ways state and local governments can deploy V2X for public safety, but critics believe the data collected, while not giving a specific ID, would share enough that identities would be apparent.