Someone has taken the trouble to collect information on the various
Transportation Surveillance systems, and what effect this will have on
privacy. They are shooting for a 2022 rollout for the GPS/transponder
installation requirement in new vehicles.
Scary but a lot of good information
http://www.permatopia.com/wetlands/spyroads.html
Quoted: "license plate scanning ala the UK system"
As her marked car crawled through the parking lot, Detective Kelly
Tibbs' new laptop beeped like a supermarket scanner. Two cameras,
positioned like crab eyes on the cruiser's roof, snapped digital
pictures of hundreds of license plates, and with each beep, the laptop
checked the images against an FBI list of stolen cars.
Maryland Transportation Authority Police hope to add the cameras to
the Bay Bridge as part of a pilot project with the U.S. Department of
Justice.
Stationary cameras, such as those envisioned for Baltimore and the Bay
Bridge, could alert nearby officers if an offending vehicle - one
bearing a license plate registered to a wanted criminal, suspected
terrorist or car thief - goes past.
"The uses are as limitless as your imagination," said Lt. John
McKissick, director of Howard County's emergency preparedness
division. "We're just in the infancy of this project, but already it
saves us money and manpower."
Quoted: GPS scanning
The U.S. Department of Transportation has been handing millions of
dollars to state governments for GPS-tracking pilot projects designed
to track vehicles wherever they go. So far, Washington state and
Oregon have received fat federal checks to figure out how to levy
these "mileage-based road user fees."
Now electronic tracking and taxing may be coming to a DMV near you.
The Office of Transportation Policy Studies, part of the Federal
Highway Administration, is about to announce another round of grants
totaling some $11 million.
One study prepared for the Transportation Department predicts a PR
success. "Less than 7 percent of the respondents expressed concerns
about recording their vehicle's movements," it says.
That whiff of victory, coupled with a windfall of new GPS-enabled tax
dollars, has emboldened DMV bureaucrats. A proposal from the Oregon
DMV, also funded by the Transportation Department, says that such a
tracking system should be mandatory for all "newly purchased vehicles
and newly registered vehicles."
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