We know this what governments do – they find a legitimate excuse to mess with your life, but it seems trivial and we accept it. And they expand its boundaries, in little increments.
Most major cities have traffic congestion problems.
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) estimated last week that by tracking all vehicles with GPS it will be able to increase road capacity by 20,000 over the next few years. (The Register)
Yep, no need to worry, it is just for traffic purposes!
Next up the police will seek to use it in rare cases of bank robberies or kidnaps. And then it will incrementally go wider and wider until the nation just accepts their every move is tracked – but if you never do anything wrong you have nothing to be afraid of!
Meanwhile in Australia some domestic violence offenders are having their GPS tracked. Perfectly reasonable!
Meanwhile in the US, LexisNexis has the data from GM vehicles.
Upon Mr. Dahl’s request, LexisNexis sent him a 258-page “consumer disclosure report,” which it must provide per the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
What it contained stunned him: more than 130 pages detailing each time he or his wife had driven the Bolt over the previous six months. It included the dates of 640 trips, their start and end times, the distance driven and an accounting of any speeding, hard braking or sharp accelerations.
