Telematics means your car will snitch you off to the tax man

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Instead of the government reading out your speed maybe your car should read the speed limit signs. The speed limit signs could be equipped with RFID tags that your car could read and regulate your speed. Some cars already use throttle by wire. You could even allow a small amount over the speed limit for short times based on a running average of your speed. This system would not transmit your speed or position to the government but would still improve highway safety. A similar strategy of Universal Identification could keep your personal information under your control in the form of a smart card that would do a cryptographic exchange to verify that you have certain citizenship privileges without saying exactly who you are. You would be in control of just how much of the information on the card was released. Of course, you would have to trust the card manufacturer that there were no back doors in the system. But don't we have to have that trust for all the internet cryptographic system we use today?

have any of you been to a gun store lately? Tried to buy ammo? You can't because the shelves are emptied as fast as they can fill them. Change is coming, just not the kind Obama was talking about. Scared? I am, you should be too. I just hope who ever takes over is better.

I am already paranoid that there is a record of every phone call I make, every email I send (unless I get tricky), every airplane ticket I use, every border I cross. Adding my automobile travel records are just a logical extension of this. Welcome to 1984. Privacy? What's that?

The problem with control of systems is the controllers. Who polices the police ?

I have heard they already do this in Singapore: charge you for all miles on the public road, based on which road, time of day, etc, but I didn't go look it up. What I just read today, though, is an experiment in the EU that will enable this tracking: look at 3w designnews.com/article/327115-Chip_Enables_Road_User_Charging_.php?rssid=20027&text=netherlands so imagine hooking the tracking up to the HPEMS device: go too fast, or your ex wants to talk to you, and the system "sees" you (or your car) and the HPEMS pulls you over down the road. No people needed, you're just sitting there. You'll need a TEMPEST qualified car to keep driving.

Texas already has a limited capability with the toll roads. Instead of just increasing the gas tax, they decided it would be "easier" to do toll roads where they track every car that uses it. I view it as an "interim" solution to full tracking with telematics. Lets face it, short of a revolution, we are going to get watched more carefully than east germany could ever have dreamed of. After all, with catch phrases like "Its for the children" and "if you have nothing to hide" how can it be fought. Franklin is turning over in his grave.

In UK we have faaabulous traffic cameras that log your number plate when you pass them, then 30 miles later you go past another, they figure out your average speed in-between and send you a ticket if they can. No one seems to think that a huge database containing the movement of every law abiding driver is an intrusion. Sometimes I think the Americans have the right idea, we should be a bit more critical of authority?

I think government monitoring of ANY of our personal information should be COMPLETELY ILLEGAL without a court-ordered warrant with undeniable cause. I think the obscenly-mis-named "Patriot Act" is the most destructive thing to happen in America, FAR WORSE THAN THE TERRORIST ATTACKS. The high-tech information age (in which I participate) is REALLY SCARY when you consider the fascist, witch-hunting Executive Branch that we just barely got rid of in this country, and was/is supported by all branches and both of the ruling-class parties. For that reason and goal I would be willing to to give up all this tech and consider a Luddite lifestyle, and for those of you who know me, you know what a stretch that would be. In the current state of affairs, Government "law enforcement" is completely out of control. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This has always been true. And universal access to our personal information gives the government WAY too much power. Government needs quite a few impediments to screwing with our lives directly. That doesn't mean government is evil. It just means we've let our representative democracy shift from representing the people to representing the ultra-rich and large corporate interests, and we've allowed our laws (which control the government that WE THE PEOPLE supposedly mandated) to shift to protecting the corporate elite at the expense of humanity. KEEP GOVERNMENT SLOW AND ENCUMBERED. KEEP OUR INFORMATION PRIVATE. KEEP OUR FREEDOMS. Worse than the government getting your telematics is the Insurance Companies. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Technology will always be used by someone to harm others. The problem with government is that there is no redress against it. Oh, wait, we were supposed to have that until the democrat's dictatorship of the proletariat.