GPS Tracking For Cars

They were saying that with gps in your car, you can be tracked. If you have a cell phone with you, you could be tracked. The US post office wants to put gps in all their mail carriers vehicles so their delivery carriers can be tracked. One of the biggest trucking firms in the country want to put gps in their trucks to the drivers can be tracked. They have put up cameras in different cities to keep an eye on whats going on. Most people are not aware of this.
One car insurance company wants to have their customers put a gismo in their car where the plug in for the computer diagnostic tool is plugged into, so when the drive by cell phone towers, the company can track their driving habits.
The question is……are we slowly loosing are right to privacy and some of our freedoms and don’t even realize it?
Granted these things may be for the good of the people concerned now, but couldn’t the eventually be used to control the population if the powers that be decided to use it for that purpose?

Best Answer: With the existing laws on the books and Presidential Executive Order powers YOU do not have any freedoms at all. More coming soon to a legislature near you. Read the list of executive powers if you really want to get concerned. I like the part about forcing the population into work camps.

• Of course it could. Here’s the bottom line; anything that CAN be used for good eventually WILL be used for evil. Name one thing that cannot be perverted?

  Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And governments have a lot of will. That’s why we have to remember the words of that great American, Benjamin Franklin, who observed, that those who are willing to sacrifice their liberty for a measure of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

• The British public worked this out ages ago.Britain has more cctv cameras than any other country,not cameras per head,more cameras.Our masters want us to carry biometric ID cards and expect us to pay for them.Internet sites are routinely monitored,phone calls too.Welcome to the technological new world mate.
• “are we slowly loosing are right to privacy and some of our freedoms and don’t even realize it?”

  YES………………………….

  “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
  Benjamin Franklin

  A:~)

• guess what else, every word you type on the internet can be tracked too, and every email, and every website you visit, and every phone call you make

  get out while you can!

• Yes you are. When you look at each individually it doesn’t seem like much, but cumulatively it adds up to quite a bit of tracking ability.
• It seems to me that the easiest way to cope with the situation is to not own one, or anything that contains one. I get along fine without one.
• I hadn’t heard that. Makes me think of Big Brother.
• Technology is a great thing, the Abuse of that technology is not. We need
  to send a message loud and clear to the Agencys using this tech, to back
  off of our right to Privacy rights. If your missing, and are suspected a
  victim of foul play. then by all rights use the GPS to find the last known
  location. But that is the only circumstance. I use GPS in my high country
  rescues. If a hiker or rider or visitor to our area is lost. I run the last
  know signal point. And grid out from there. Once I have the last known
  location, 200 years of experience go’s into play. long taught by my
  ancestors. I don’t lose many.

  The rest are either marketing ploys by company’s and that is just
  wrong. If a trucking company to wants to keep track of trucks and
  driver’s as long as the driver of the rig, signs off on it, go right ahead.

  A very careful balance between what is right and what is wrong needs
  to be established, along with penaltys when going the other way.

• Depends on what you do. As a social worker going into dangerous situations, I don’t mind being tracked when I am on the job. A couple of years ago, a social worker went missing while on the job. They found her rolled up in a carpet in a back alley. Mail carriers, truck drivers etc those are jobs in which you are out on your own a lot. I can see where it comes in handy.
  As for controlling the population, that is why you work to make sure the law continues to support the change in technology while upholding our privacy. Technology changes but the foundation of our principles will not. Then again may-be it can. Fear is a great motivator and fear can make people steer away from their principles. We did have that whole wire-tapping without justification happen right here in America. You are right, it is something to think about.
• Many states now have a technology for turnpikes that allows drivers to go through an “express” lane in the booths that runs up a tab and bills then monthly, instead of paying every time you use the turnpike. In Pennsylvania, this is classed the EZ-Pass.

  There was a story sometime ago about a woman with EZ-Pass who got a ticket in the mail for speeding not because a cop caught her, but because the time stamps on the EZ-Pass entries were too close together for the distance between booths if traveled at the speed limit. Due to the time stamps, they decided she was speeding and sent her a ticket in the mail.