With BMW and MINI CarData, the BMW Group is continuing to expand its future-oriented premium services, enabling service providers to provide new, innovative and individually tailored services to BMW and MINI customers based on data from their vehicle (available for BMW customers and, in the EU, MINI customers).
The requirement is that a customer must give the service provider express permission for the release of their data and must have a telematics-enabled vehicle allocated to a BMW ConnectedDrive or MINI Connected customer account.
CarData is an implementation of the “Extended Vehicle Approach,” supported by the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).
In addition to taking into account the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), CarData has also been adopted to implement the requirements of the EU Data Act. Users can therefore access their vehicle data via the service and, if they wish, share it with third parties.
For more information on the implementation of the EU Data Act, please see the following links: