Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns
December 7, 2012 at 5:58 am in Grand Forks Herald
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. Continue Reading
Each time government seeks to acuumulate more and more personal information about its citizens, we approach more and more Orwell’s predicition about what this country will become. I’ll be dead and in my grave by the time it has reached its apex: cameras in every house. But that is where we are heading. I regret the life my grandchildren face.
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Nows the best time to propose this sort of thing.
The current admin is by far the best we have seen for eliminating personal freedoms in the name of safety and government control.
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Oh just get it over with already, require all U.S. citizens to have government monitoring devices installed at birth.
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What?! Invasion of privacy?! How is whether one was speeding, what inputs immediately preceded an accident, or the effectiveness of one’s electronic systems at all personal? These are all objective, measurable, and completely impersonal. They’re the absolute truth, most importantly, and we can know them.
This is data that will save lives and improve vehicles. It’s not how you voted or where you were last night. I mean, they have to show up with a *physical* laptop and actually plug it in after the crash to get at the data!
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How are you going to feel when you’re required to download your Event Recorder each time you fill up with gas, and then pay for each speeding ticket and roll-through-stop sign citation along with the gasoline purchase?
The Event Recorder will greatly assist “Law Enforcement” (which is to say “Revenue Generation and Citizen Control”) in collecting “fines” (which is to say “unequally-assessed user fees”) for traffic violations.
Your car has a GPS system. Your car has a data recorder. The feds will know the speed limits and the traffic signs applicable to every road you drive on. They will know exactly where you are, and by extension, what you’re doing.
When the AntiChrist comes, he’s going to find that we’ve already built his infrastructure.
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And when the revenue goes down, so will the speed limits, so that more folks can be found “guilty” and pay their fines.
It’s NOT about safety, and it NEVER WAS. It’s about money and power. Your money and your power…usurped by corrupt Government.
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