thereisnospoon
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Car Black Boxes Raise Privacy Concerns
Since Obama is prez this will be okay, right? Remember the hissies libs threw over libraries and the patriot act?
From your link.................................
In the next few days, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to propose long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders better known as "black boxes" in all new cars and light trucks. But the agency is behind the curve. Automakers have been quietly tucking the devices, which automatically record the actions of drivers and the responses of their vehicles in a continuous information loop, into most new cars for years.
When a car is involved in a crash or when its airbags deploy, inputs from the vehicle's sensors during the 5 to 10 seconds before impact are automatically preserved. That's usually enough to record things like how fast the car was traveling and whether the driver applied the brake, was steering erratically or had a seat belt on.
The idea is to gather information that can help investigators determine the cause of accidents and lead to safer vehicles. But privacy advocates say government regulators and automakers are spreading an intrusive technology without first putting in place policies to prevent misuse of the information collected.
Car Black Boxes Raise Privacy Concerns
So............if automakers have already been doing this for years, how did Obama implement it?
Yes but now the government wants to go much further. The tracking of vehicle movements as means to levy taxes and God knows what else these pricks want to do.
The danger is, when no one is willing to watch the watchers.
If the watchers know they are not being watched, it is the same as possessing absolute power.