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Tell-all Cars Put Your Driving Business out in the Open

Posted March 24, 2013 4:41 PM

From USA Today:

Is your car spying on you?

If it's a recent model, has a fancy infotainment system or is equipped with toll-booth transponders or other units you brought into the car that can monitor your driving, your driving habits or destination could be open to the scrutiny of others. If your car is electric, it's almost surely capable of ratting you out.

You may have given your permission, or you may be the last to know.

At present, consumer's privacy is regulated when it comes to banking transactions, medical records, phone and Internet use. But data generated by cars, which these days are basically rolling computers, are not.

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03/25/2013 8:10 AM

I can see it happening, especially with the high price of benefits and pensions of public sector employees such as State Troopers and police used for traffic.

Look at Illinois, with the cameras they are using, in part to counter the cost that are bankrupting that state.

I drove through Denver unmanned toll way, and then receive an invoice from them a few weeks later for the use of their toll road.......

had to admit it, but when the speed limits 65, who knows the troopers gives you 8-9 miles over before they turn on the lights.

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03/25/2013 12:20 PM

I am absolutely certain in today's world that if data becomes available, of whatever sort, someone will find a way to use it that is, if not nefarious, at least annoying.

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03/28/2013 5:44 PM

Governments will ALWAYS find nefarious ways to "spy" on their subjects...that's *how* they stay in power.

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