Gershowitz Offers Commentary on Sensitive Data Captured by Today’s High-Tech Autos
Professor Adam Gershowitz of William & Mary Law School has been in heavy demand since New Years Day when a Cybertruck exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
The incident revealed the large amount of sensitive data modern cars collect about those who drive them.
Gershowitz, the James D. & Pamela J. Penny Research Professor and Hugh & Nolie Haynes Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, is a criminal law expert who has studied police searches of digital data. He is the author of The Tesla Meets the Fourth Amendment, 48 BYU L. Rev. 1135 (2023). Read more.
On January 4, Gershowitz was quoted in a Washington Post story about the amount of possibly sensitive data captured by today’s vehicles. Read the story.
Two days later, in a NewsNation Vargas Reports piece, “Are cars spying on us? Tesla data helped Vegas investigation,” Gershowitz commented on the “double-edged sword” of information that runs from phone to vehicle and the amount of data car companies are collecting on drivers. Watch the video. (Gershowitz quoted at 3:23.)
And on January 13, Gershowitz contributed an op-ed, "Police didn’t need a warrant to search the exploding Tesla Cybertruck’s computer — can they search your Tesla data too?" published in The Hill. In the piece, Gershowitz examined Tesla computer searches and the Cybertruck explosion outside of Trump Hotel. Read the op-ed.
Professor Gershowitz has been quoted in hundreds of media stories, including in The N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L.A Times, and NPR.
He is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles. William & Mary recognized his research with a Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence in 2015. The Supreme Court cited his amicus brief in its ruling in Riley v. California, which forbid warrantless cell phone searches.