Comment Access does at least appear to be encrypted (Score 4, Informative) 24
Samsik confirmed that it had been contacted by Movia and said that it was “not aware of any specific cases of deactivation of electric buses”.
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Yutong said it “strictly complies with the applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards of the locations where its vehicles operate” and that Yutong vehicle terminal data in the EU were stored at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacentre in Frankfurt.
A spokesperson added: “This data is used solely for vehicle-related maintenance, optimisation and improvement to meet customers’ after-sales service needs. The data is protected by storage encryption and access control measures. No one is allowed to access or view this data without customer authorisation. Yutong strictly complies with the EU’s data protection laws and regulations.”
The summary implies that remote deactivation is not that difficult, that does not appear to be the case.
I'm not really familiar with Tesla vehicles, do they have remote deactivation? Does any other car manufacturer have that?