Texas Bill Would Put Transponders In Every Car
from the you-have-no-privacy-anywhere dept
Bob Dole writes “The vice-chairman of the Texas House Transportation Committee has figured out how to do away with those nasty camera tickets. He has introduced a bill to require all state inspection stickers to store and transmit information about you and your vehicle to roadside machines. If the information in a newly created database of every auto insurance policy in the state says your policy is expired, you’ll be mailed a $250 ticket. If that ticket gets lost in the mail, don’t worry because you won’t get another one — your license and registration are automatically suspended for six months.” Seems like a similar plan to ones in California and Oregon to require a GPS device in every car that would report on where you drove so the state could more accurately tax you for driving. Clearly, the idea that you might have some right to privacy concerning where you go doesn’t seem to register much with certain state government officials.
Comments on “Texas Bill Would Put Transponders In Every Car”
Amber Alert
It would sure make solving child abduction cases easier.
Why are Americans so obsessed with “privacy”? Do they have so much to hide?
Re: Amber Alert
You have no idea dumbass.
Re: Re: Amber Alert
I am an American, in case you thought otherwise.
Re: Amber Alert
Why is our government so concerned with secrecy? Does it have so much to hide?
If the president and his staff can hold close session discussions with Enron, we should be allowed are “trade secrets” as well.
Re: Re: Amber Alert
The expectation of privacy in a person’s personal matters is as old as the constitution. Maybe we should ban postal envelopes, forcing everyone to correspond via post cards for the convenience of the government? After all, honest people have nothing to hide. No, the question is how far shall the bureaucrats be allowed to abridge our right to privacy. The more that’s known the easier it is to control- and it’s all about control.
it would help...
Getting access to this new database would help to track the idiot who introduced it to one of the local ‘massage’ salons and post his whereabouts on the web. We’ll see how long that database would live after that 🙂
nothing to do with our safety
This will become a way to charge you tax when you drive from one place to another. If you think about it a little more, it is a way to prevent us from free travel in the US, so it the artificial increase in gas prices.
correction
so is the artificial increase in gas prices.