I assume we have these too. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/black-boxes-in-cars-a-question-of-privacy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&_r=0
>About 96 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States have black >boxes, > When Timothy P. Murray crashed his government-issued Ford Crown Victoria in > 2011, he was fortunate, as car accidents go. Mr. Murray, then the lieutenant > governor of Massachusetts, was not seriously hurt, and he told the police he > was wearing a seat belt and was not speeding. > > But a different story soon emerged. Mr. Murray was driving over 100 miles an > hour and was not wearing a seat belt, according to the computer in his car > that tracks certain actions. He was given a $555 ticket; he later said he had > fallen asleep. > > The case put Mr. Murray at the center of a growing debate over a little-known > but increasingly important piece of equipment buried deep inside a car: the > event data recorder, more commonly known as the black box. > > About 96 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States have the > boxes, and in September 2014, if the National Highway Traffic Safety > Administration has its way, all will have them. > The boxes have long been used by car companies to assess the performance of > their vehicles. But data stored in the devices is increasingly being used to > identify safety problems in cars and as evidence in traffic accidents and > criminal cases. And the trove of data inside the boxes has raised privacy > concerns, including questions about who owns the information, and what it can > be used for, even as critics have raised questions about its reliability. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
