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Destroying Privacy News: DOT Proposes Mandating Cars Broadcast Location, Direction and Speed
cnsnews.com ^ | August 27, 2014 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 08/27/2014 8:34:49 AM PDT by theBuckwheat

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, published last week an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking" on "vehicle-to-vehicle communications."

What NHTSA is proposing could begin a transformation in the American transportation system that makes our lives better and freer — or gives government more power over where we go and when.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beseeingyou; bigbrother; blackbox; prisonplanet; privacy; privacyrights; safety; surveillance
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In the interest of "safety", government is yet again proposing that we destroy another one of our unalienable rights, the right to travel in private. As we see with the NSA, the only way to prevent government from giving itself a pass when it comes to protection of our privacy is to prevent them from having access to the means to do so. Leviathan parasitic government will always exempt itself from its own rules. This also applies to schemes to collect road use taxes by the use of a GPS device as some lawmakers have proposed.
1 posted on 08/27/2014 8:34:49 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

And, this is why I will keep buying cars from the 1980s and early 2000s.


2 posted on 08/27/2014 8:37:27 AM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: theBuckwheat

http://www.aopa.org/Advocacy/Air-Traffic-Services-,-a-,-Technology/Air-Traffic-Services-Brief-Automatic-Dependent-Surveillance-Broadcast-ADS-B


3 posted on 08/27/2014 8:38:17 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: theBuckwheat

No updating my pick - up or my van.

I have wire cutters & Sears Craftsman Tools.


4 posted on 08/27/2014 8:38:28 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: theBuckwheat

I’ll reinstall mine upside down and backwards and have the transmit time delayed one week.

I want my America back!

Let’s close or restrict funding to these fascists agencies.


5 posted on 08/27/2014 8:40:36 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: theBuckwheat

If there was ever a case for civil disobedience, this is it.


6 posted on 08/27/2014 8:41:23 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: theBuckwheat

A government agency.

For when your grades and performance were so abysmal that no private enterprise would have you.

Folks, they’ll do what they can to us until we return it back in spades.


7 posted on 08/27/2014 8:42:28 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: theBuckwheat

All it takes is one car not broadcasting to break this and create even more safety issues. Privacy aside, it is a terrible idea to depend on broadcast information for safety reasons.


8 posted on 08/27/2014 8:52:35 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Da Coyote
Folks, they’ll do what they can to us until we return it back in spades.

I concur.
9 posted on 08/27/2014 8:55:14 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: FrankR
If there was ever a case for civil disobedience, this is it.

You can bet that someday this will probably happen. All it will take is a democrat congress and president, just like Obamacare. The technology exists now of course. Just ask any police officer. No more catching somes Z's at 3:00AM.

10 posted on 08/27/2014 8:55:18 AM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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11 posted on 08/27/2014 9:02:09 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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And, this is why I will keep buying cars from the 1980s and early 2000s.

Expect King Hussein the First to shortly announce another "cash for clunkers" deal to further dwindle the supply

12 posted on 08/27/2014 9:06:52 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: theBuckwheat

Seriously, how do they plan to collect, store & retrieve all this data?

Oh, I forgot, this is all about targeting “enemies of the state” (i.e. Conservatives).


13 posted on 08/27/2014 9:14:52 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: G Larry

These are easy to jam. The link between the satellites and GPS being the weakest point.

http://www.skybuying.com/goods-9529.html


14 posted on 08/27/2014 9:17:27 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: theBuckwheat

Blow it yer keester G-man....


15 posted on 08/27/2014 9:26:41 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Jewbacca

scenario in your futre:

You - “Uh...what’s seems to be the problem officer?”

Cop - “We were unable to detect the mandatory tracking signals from your vehicle, so we’re impounding your car until we can have that resolved.”


16 posted on 08/27/2014 10:26:10 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: theBuckwheat
I originally thought that technology would herald in a golden age for the little guy, by enabling him to compete with the giants. It took a while, but now I see how technology is diminishing our freedoms, not just by tracking us, but in numerous other ways.

We have traded a middle class with a high measure of security in those things necessary to life and the starting and raising of families—like security in the workplace, in housing, in healthcare, in transportation, in education, in food supplies, in energy—for having to work like rats or have your job outsourced and take months to never to find a new job, to huge student debt, crushing medical costs, housing bubbles, cars that cost what houses once cost, rising grocery prices (seems every item I put in my basket is the better part of $5), sky high energy bills, and fancy electronic gizmo's.

It all reminds me how Native Americans were gulled into trading what was really important in their lives for glittering trinkets.

Your ipads and other consumer electronics are the glittering trinkets of the day, which by the back door, have turned our once healthy lives of real prosperity (prosperity in the real necessities of life) upside down.

17 posted on 08/27/2014 10:27:28 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason

Bravo, tell it like it is brother. You nailed it.


18 posted on 08/27/2014 10:52:03 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: RipSawyer

In the interest of fairness, this has to be put on mass transportation so we know who is on those vehicles. Also bicycles, vespas, subways and wheelchairs.

And those riding on mass transportation need to have valid ID to ride on those vehicles. ID which will be used as a voter ID card.

End it real quick.


19 posted on 08/27/2014 10:57:55 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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To: Age of Reason

Authoritarians appreciate high voter turnout, so just do as you are told and keep voting. That will solve everything.


20 posted on 08/27/2014 11:00:02 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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