Canada Conservatives Want Chinese EVs Barred and Their Software Banned (eletric-vehicles.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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Generally avoid posting idiotic things this guy says, but as most people know as offensive as this guy is he's been sure not to offend anyone powerful and it seems like he's finally picked a side. Hopefully this will the straw that break the camel back for the Conservatives.

The Conservative leader called for a ban on Chinese software, matching the US.

“We will protect the North American supply chains by keeping the 75% rule in place, harmonise the North American cybersecurity rules by banning Chinese software, and align with our partners on the tariff against China to counter unfair trade and increase our negotiating leverage,” he stated.

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 17 points 12 hours ago

Why not laws that control data sovereignty? BYD’s vehicles in the EU have to comply with GDPR; all the telemetry goes to an EU data warehouse.

The main issue I have with US vehicles currently is that they collect everything you do, store it in the US, and then both sell data off to third parties AND implement lax security so that interested third parties can just waltz in and take the data. And that’s before you get to the US government buying that data as well.

The only EV I can currently find on the market that lets you turn off telematics is by BMW.

[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

The only EV I can currently find on the market that lets you turn off telematics is by BMW.

There’s an EV that lets you turn off telematics??? Which BMW is that? How verifiable is it that they’re actually turning off the signal?

[-] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

As usual Pierre is omitting and over simplifying things. Otherwise just going out of his way now to pander to Trump.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2229566/canadians-are-ready-for-chinese-made-autos-but-experts-note-there-are-security-risks

During a recent parliamentary committee hearing, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said that Ottawa would ensure "safeguards" are put in place to prevent the vehicles from transmitting information back to China.

There was also discussion to put more Blackberry software in the cars even shipped outside of Canada.

https://eletric-vehicles.com/general/canada-pushes-for-chinese-ev-joint-venture-to-supply-global-markets-minister-says/

The minister revealed there are “active conversations” on how domestic firms might complement new Chinese investment, including with Ottawa-based software developer QNX, owned by BlackBerry.