Your Car is Spying On You

Published Thu, Jun 20th, 2013  

Marty Biancuzzo, Senior Political Analyst

 

Think about your morning: You gather the last of your belongings before

heading off to work.

As you exit the house, you unlock your car. It beeps, the headlights flash,

you approach your vehicle and get behind the wheel.

You start the engine, back out of the driveway and drive down the road.

Whether that drive is one mile or one hundred miles, there’s something

that you should know…

You’re being tracked.

You see, inside your car there’s a “black box” similar to the ones found in

airplanes. And it logs all of your information from startup to shutdown.

And the government has mandated that every new car sold by

September 1, 2014 must have a black box on board.

In fact, 96% of all 2013 vehicles have these black boxes.

But a couple members of Congress are introducing legislation that would

require a user-friendly “off switch.”

Origins of Intrusion

If you happened to read your owner’s manual cover-to-cover, you’d probably

know what I’m talking about. But, if you’re like the vast majority of people on

this planet, there’s a strong chance that this is the first you’re hearing about

these black boxes.

Inside most of today’s vehicles, a recorder the size of a deck of cards is lodged

in unspecified locations. This “black box” is called an Event Data Recorder (EDR),

and it was initially intended to track “crash data,” which consists of

moment-by-moment statistics of the events leading up to a collision.

Tracking things like vehicle speed, engine speed, throttle position, braking status,

steering angle, force of impact, seatbelt status and airbag deployment.

This type of data was initially designed for motor vehicle safety enhancements.

But now it’s being used as key evidence in civilian and insurance court

cases…

Entire article:

http://www.capitolhilldaily.com/2013/06/edr-car-black-box/

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