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Oregon considers GPS Tracking Devices in Every Car

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

The NY Times writes about Oregon’s experiments with a per-mile fee system that could replace general gas taxes. By installing GPS location tracking devices in every car, mileage could be tracked and users would have taxes levied on how much they use the roads, not on how much gas they purchase.
The Times article does note […]

Surveillance in Spheres of Mobility

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

The collaborators at the important “On the Identity Trail” project in Canada were kind enough to ask me to write an essay for their blog. Here is an excerpt:
Surveillance in Spheres of Mobility: Privacy, Technical Design and the Flow of Personal Information on the Transportation and Information Superhighways
A recent Nassau County Supreme Court ruling held […]

Podcast discussing my work

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

We’re lucky to have Anders Albrechtslund visiting the Dept of Culture & Communication for the next week. Anders is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is engaged in research on surveillance studies, computer ethics and philosophy of technology. Anders and I met at CEPE last summer, […]

On Privatized Toll Roads, Who Owns Your Data?

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

The New York Times reports that the State of Indiana is considering selling their major toll road to a private company (a Spanish-Australian partnership) that would operate the toll road for a profit for the next 75 years. The privatization of public highways is a growing trend as states look for upfront cash infusions and […]

Popular Science on Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Popular Science features an article on “The Future of the Car: Behold the All-Seeing, Self-Parking, Safety-Enforcing, Networked Automobile” where one of the emerging technologies discussed is Vehicle Safety Communication technology:
The next giant leap in sensing will be radio networking that enables cars to exchange information. “Communication [between cars] will be like an additional sensor,” says […]

Papers on Privacy and Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies

Friday, July 15th, 2005

I am on my way to The Netherlands to particpate in two exciting conferences. I will be presenting my paper “Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies” [PDF] at the International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. And I will be presenting my paper “Privacy and the Design of Vehicle Safety Communication […]

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