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From Lauren Weinstein’s Blog:

Privacy activist Weinstein points out potential privacy issues with the NYC congestion plan.

Of course, such a system is also dandy for building and maintaining a massive database of driver activities for a range of other purposes. This is likely (regardless of any claims of data privacy) to become fodder for all manner of officials and clever attorneys — just as “FasTrak” toll data in the San Francisco Bay Area already has.

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This is the kind of invasive technology — with massive “data creep” potential — that privacy-conscious people should really be concerned about today, not services like Google’s existing Street View application.

It’s time to get our priorities straight, folks.

rshah Other Cities, Traffic Congestion