> This is a little disturbing. A car rental company tracked the use of the
> rental with a GPS and the man that rented the car found that his checking
> account had been debited an addition $400+ because he exceeded the speed
> limit imposed by the rental company.
>
> Certainly it is not reasonable to drive in excess of 80 MPH as
> this guy did,
> but I am not sure that it was reasonable for the rental company to
> automatically deduct funds from the renters checking account without
> warning. I am still undecided if the renters privacy was violated. The
> article states that this policy was clearly stated in bold on the rental
> agreement, but I am not sure that the consequences were clearly
> spelled out.
> Not to mention the impact and annoyance of finding that your checking
> account is suddenly $400 smaller!
>
> Complete article here:
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/590537.asp#BODY
More importantly, this monitoring is the slippery slope to government
imposed tracking of location and automatic fines for violation of speed
limits, which are being lowered in many places purely as revenue-generation.
:o(((
Charlie
