Thank you for your post! Cellphone usage data is used in traffic accident cases all the time, but again, it’s obtained through court order. I can’t understand so-called “conservatives” on this site whom are all too happy to trample our rights if they feel it makes them, personally, 1/100th of a percent “safer.”
This bill strikes me as like the use of GPS to collect taxes by miles driven. While it’s true that GPS info can be used to determine miles driven, it does so by recording your exact location every second of every day, obviously including exactly where and where you were at every single location, and how fast you were moving. The GPS data is vastly more invasive and intrusive than needed to collect miles driven. The odometer can do that. In fact, a gasoline tax also roughly does that, people who drive more use more gas and therefore pay more tax. (In particular, someone who drives none will pay zero such tax.) Searching your cell phone gives the cops vastly more information than whether you were texting at the time of the crash or not.