| CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [G06F 21/316 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)] | 24 Claims |

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1. A vehicle for ensuring privacy consent for handling of occupant vehicle data, comprising:
a storage maintaining an identity database including feature identification vectors of vehicle occupants and privacy settings of the vehicle occupants, the privacy settings indicating which of the vehicle occupants have consented to data collection and which specific elements of the vehicle data to be offloaded from the vehicle when the vehicle occupants are located within the vehicle; and
a controller, programmed to
identify a first feature identification vector indicative of a first identity of a first vehicle occupant and a second feature identification vector indicative of a second identity of a second vehicle occupant, wherein the first vehicle occupant is a driver and the second vehicle occupant is a passenger,
query the identity database, using the first and second feature identification vectors, to identify whether consent for use of vehicle data was provided by the first and second vehicle occupants, and
responsive to the first vehicle occupant but not the second vehicle occupant having provided consent for use of the vehicle data, upload the vehicle data in accordance with the consent granted for the first vehicle occupant but not the second vehicle occupant, including allowing driver behavior to be transmitted but preventing passenger behavior from being transmitted.
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