OH…PULEEEZE! Bob…
Mandatory tracking devices on all cars stomps on individual rights.
Even for the greater good of society? How is having a tracking device on your car an invasion of your personal rights?
It allows them to know the full extent of your schedule, and to track your movements, determining patterns of behavior.
In the long run it would end up harming society. When in history has a lack of freedom gone hand in hand with the good of society?
Why would they seek this information from you if are a law abiding citizen?
That’s a very good question why would they need it…since we are all innocent until proven guilty?
Obviously they have tried to seek information like this in the past or we would have the 4th Amendment.
“Black boxes” in cars would be anything but a “money saver.” The most obvious use would be to track one’s driving habits, speed averages, and aggregate mileage over a period of time. With that data, the Green Police, with government backing, would then see to it that car owners would face new taxes (for driving over a fixed number of miles per year), new surcharges (say, when the black box detected speeding, or an “excessive” number of “inefficient” short trips), and even forced car turn-ins (the automotive equivalent of “Logan’s Run”) when the authorities decided a given car wasn’t being maintained to some bureaucratic standard. And these are just the most "benign"possible uses. Not even getting into governmental usage of “black box” data to control behavior – such as remote disabling of cars for allegedly unauthorized use, tracking individual’s travels, etc. No thank you.
We may all be innocent until proven guilty, but we are not all law abiding… many criminals who have committed a crime and used a car. Why should we let criminals get away so easily?
Why would they collect our phone logs, text, email and internet histroy if we were law abiding citizens? And yet, that is exactly what they have been doing, we caught them at it. Sorry, but I trust our government as far as I can throw them, and considering that DC is a big place, I doubt that’s very far. Things like this are -always- abused, period. Name one government who did that sort of thing that used it altruistically or for the good of the people.
Would these things really happen? Or, are you being pessimistic? Driving has always been a privilege, and applying a tracking device may therefore be fully right and moral.
Several governments have set in place systems similar in nature to this car system… The Soviet union, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini… All of them developed ways to track their citizens, and it always ended poorly. This is just another form of tracking. Being law abiding or not has nothing to do with it, I will not sacrifice my privacy to make it easier for them to do their damn jobs.Would these things really happen? Or, are you being pessimistic? Driving has always been a privilege, and applying a tracking device may therefore be fully right and moral.
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