"Owners also have no legal protections to keep them from being forced to hand over that information to another party if a court order demanded it.
"I think (owners) have to be told of whatever data there is — and what is being retained longterm. What are the storage conditions? Will they keep it confidential or will they have to release information to anybody?" said professor John Soma, director of the Privacy Center (search) at Denver University.
"Without all of these concerns written into it, then obviously the recommendation is completely unacceptable," he said."
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And people aren't even told about it. They may catch this article, or they may not, but there is no notification, when they buy the car, they will just find out the hard way.
And I bet you didn't know this either:
"Black boxes, or "EDRs" have been fitted into every General Motors car in its 2004 line and is in a number of Ford models — about 15 percent of all vehicles on the road today, according to road safety experts."
"a perfect example of how the country can electorally keep moving to the right, even as all of the wonks who populate the Federal bureaus keep tacking to the left."
The problem is, there is practically no difference between conservatives and liberals when it comes to stuff like this.