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The bill makes it substantially easier and faster for survivors to cut off abusers' remote access and protect sensitive vehicle data, but it creates compliance costs, privacy tradeoffs, risks of wrongful lockouts, and reduces local regulatory flexibility and some legal remedies.
Survivors and vehicle account holders can request and (in practice) get an abuser's remote access or connected-vehicle services disconnected or terminated quickly, reducing immediate stalking, tracking, and physical risk.
Survivors' location and usage data and identifying documents are better protected: providers must deny abusers access to post-termination data, remove certain stored sensitive data, and keep/ destroy verification documents on a limited basis, reducing exposure and retraumatization risks.
Survivors face fewer procedural and financial barriers to getting protections: providers cannot charge fees or require the account holder's approval to act, and the law provides guidance and pathways to reestablish services without the abuser.
Innocent account holders and drivers risk wrongful or accidental disabling/lockouts of vehicle features or services, which can cause safety, mobility, and access problems.
Covered providers will incur new development, verification, notification, and data-handling costs to comply, costs that are likely to be passed to consumers or borne by smaller providers, potentially raising prices or reducing service availability.
The Act grants broad immunity to providers and their staff for compliance actions, which can leave people harmed by negligent or wrongful provider conduct with reduced legal recourse and less accountability.
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Requires connected vehicle service providers to disable an abuser's remote access upon a survivor's validated request, with confidentiality, notifications, and FCC rulemaking.
Official title: To establish a process for survivors to request the termination or disabling of connected vehicle services that abusers misuse, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 14, 2025 by Debbie Dingell · Last progress March 14, 2025
Creates a federal process requiring vehicle manufacturers and connected-vehicle service providers to quickly disable or revoke another person’s remote access to a survivor’s vehicle and vehicle data when the survivor reports certain domestic violence or trafficking offenses. The bill requires timelines and notifications for providers, confidentiality protections for survivor-submitted verification, consumer-facing guidance, liability protection for providers who follow the law, FCC rulemaking to set standards, and a 180-day compliance deadline after enactment.