While riding with a friend in her lovely new car this weekend, she used Onstar to help guide us to our destination.
It was both fascinating and very creepy.
Her car obviously has one of those infamous GPS "black boxes" that are ubiquitous in airliners for collecting every bit of data, to determine the cause of an event if some tragedy befalls that plane. But do we really need them in our cars?
This is just another way of technology slowing encroaching on our privacy. It's being ever chipped away, bit by bit, in return for so called "safety and security." GPS is now everywhere, and because of it's convenience and usability, more and more companies, products and people are diving right into it without really looking at the big picture. Right now the NTTA (North Texas Tollway Authority) already has the ability to track your every move--if you use the tollway system. Let's look at the creepy things they already track, shall we? This is the NTTA record for my own tolltag:
For something (someONE?) to know my very whereabouts at all times, even under the guise of being "helpful" to drivers...it's all very subversive and surreal. I assume that soon enough, car insurance companies and medical insurance companies will be "borrowing" this technology to determine if someone should be barred from getting insurance coverage (or medical treatment) because their driving records show they "don't deserve them."
Add the possibility (more like the reality) of putting sensors in the roads themselves, and you have the makings of a police state - and who then are those who make this determination?
If I am an upstanding and law abiding citizen, why do I need to be watched every moment of every day? To what end?
Oh yeah. See the very reason for this blog. It's definitely happening folks.
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