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.
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Why are Americans so obsessed with "privacy"? Do they have so much to hide?
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If the president and his staff can hold close session discussions with Enron, we should be allowed are "trade secrets" as well.
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it would help...
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nothing to do with our safety
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correction
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