From declan@well.com Fri Jul 6 02:30:21 2018 From: Declan McCullagh To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [Politech] Weekly column: Tracking you wherever you drive -- GPS bugs and the Transportation Department [priv] Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:30:21 +0000 Message-ID: <172289244863.3881296.11025427830168742287.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2907119818307182292==" --===============2907119818307182292== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5980979.html Perspective: E-tracking, coming to a DMV near you By Declan McCullagh December 5, 2005, 4:00 AM PST Trust federal bureaucrats to take a good idea and transform it into a frightening proposal to track Americans wherever they drive. 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 that 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. A spokeswoman on Friday said the office is "shooting for the end of the year" for the announcement, and more money is expected for GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking efforts. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which h= ad a name of signature.asc] --===============2907119818307182292==--