Archive for the 'Privacy on the Roads' Category
Popular Mechanics on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007Popular Mechanics‘ “buzzword” this week is Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications technologies, touting its safety benefits, open DSRC communication protocol, low cost to implement, and commitment by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to integrate similar technologies into roadway infrastructure (allowing Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication).
The brief article notes “There will probably also be privacy concerns.” Yep, and you can read […]
Another Court Ruling on GPS Tracking without Warrant
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Two years ago I blogged about a very chilling precedent from an upstate New York federal judge who ruled that police can secretly attach Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant, stating that suspects had “no expectation of privacy in the whereabouts of his vehicle on a public roadway.” Seems […]
New rule: Car buyers must be told about ‘black boxes’
Monday, August 21st, 2006As a follow-up to this long ago posting, the National Highway Traffic Safety Asministration has passed a resolution requiring car manufacturers to inform buyers if their cars are equipped with event data recorders (EDRs). Car manufacturers must comply with the new regulation beginning in the 2011 model year; currently, about 64 percent of model year […]
More Amateur Surveillance: License Plate Scanning
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006We’ve seem to have recently turned a corner where advanced surveillance & data mining technologies are now increasingly marketed to everyday people. Wired News reports on a new vehicle license plate scanning and tracking that is being pitched to more than just law enforcement needs:
Bucholz, who designed some of the first mobile license plate reading, […]
Driving may put toll on privacy
Monday, July 24th, 2006The Atlanta Journal-Constitution features a nice article that pieces together many of the privacy concerns with new transportation technologies - a central focus of much of my research. The article notes the desire to use GPS to track vehicle movements to facilitate assessing mileage taxes, vehicle-to-vehicle communication technologies to improve safety and the already ubiquitous […]
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
Friday, July 21st, 2006I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Science & Society Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation.
This grant will support my dissertation research of the value implications of two emerging technologies of everyday life: networked vehicle systems and web search engines. Networked […]
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