(Alliance News) - The sale of Iveco's civilian division to the Indian group Tata involves not only industrial assets but also control over data generated by approximately 100,000 Italian truck drivers, as reported by Il Sole 24 Ore on Tuesday.
The decree on Golden Power, approved at the end of October, extends for the first time the protection of national sovereignty to the digital flows of connected vehicles: predictive diagnostics, fleet management apps, and AI-powered voice assistants, the daily continues.
Such data must remain within the Italian or European perimeter.
As Il Sole notes, this issue is strategic. Technologies developed for connected civilian mobility are dual-use by nature and can also enable military and security applications. Although Iveco's Defense division has been spun off and assigned to Leonardo, the government's review highlights that the digital architecture and access to APIs remain critical points of power over the data.
The recent European guidelines on the Data Act clarify that raw data can be shared, while data resulting from proprietary algorithms remains with the manufacturers--in this case, Tata for Iveco.
As the newspaper explains, in this scenario, simple data localization is not enough. Ongoing technological oversight is needed for platforms that are not just industrial tools, but key infrastructures for European digital sovereignty.
By Claudia Cavaliere, Alliance News reporter
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