Freedom

Privacy Experts Shun Black Boxes

Feds To Require Electronic
Data Recorders In All Autos
WASHINGTON -- Some safety and privacy experts are reacting with apprehension, others with all out condemnation over a recent ruling by the National Transportation Safety Board to require electronic data recorders or "black boxes" in all new cars manufactured in the United States. "I take offense that this personal property of individuals is now being designed by the federal government," said Jim Harper, privacy attorney and editor of Privacilla.org.

Posted by Editor at November 15, 2004 07:12 AM