Indstøy, who works at Telenor on a daily basis, has together with seven others examined the Chinese brand NIO’s family car in their spare time. They call the project “Lion Cage”:
– We find a surprising amount of data traffic between the car and China. It was a surprise. We didn’t expect that, he adds NRK.
Now he urges the authorities to continuously assess the risk this type of technology has for society.
Senior adviser Martin Bernsen in PST will not comment on individual cases, but tells NRK that the Chinese authorities are involving commercial technology companies in the country’s military modernisation.
– This means that technology and knowledge from all Chinese actors must be made available to the Chinese military, he says.
The Chinese embassy in Norway rejects the accusations as “unfounded conspiracy”. The Norwegian importer of NIO emphasizes that only the car’s user can control its physical movements and which functions are activated.
– Technical vehicle data is processed, anonymised and encrypted exclusively in the vehicle and is not shared with NIO’s cloud service unless the user has consented to this, says NIO spokesperson Vijay Sharma to the channel.