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December 24, 2005
Feds plan to track every vehicle by GPS
Just can't make this stuff up. The U.S. Department of Transportation is planning to track every vehicle using GPS. They already have pilot programs under way in Washington state and Oregon.
Some GPS trackers constantly communicate their location back to the state DMV, while others record the location information for later retrieval. (In the Oregon pilot project, it's beamed out wirelessly when the driver pulls into a gas station.)
The problem, though, is that no privacy protections exist. No restrictions prevent police from continually monitoring, without a court order, the whereabouts of every vehicle on the road.
I, for one, welcome our new US DOT overlords.
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on December 24, 2005 at 10:02 PM
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