{"id":8151,"date":"2012-12-27T07:53:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T07:53:07","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8151","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: &#8220;Feds Requiring \u2018Black Boxes\u2019 in All Motor Vehicles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/12\/black-boxes-privacy\/\">Feds Requiring \u2018Black Boxes\u2019 in All Motor Vehicles<\/a> by David Kravets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called \u201cevent data recorders\u201d that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even a car\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p>While many automakers have voluntarily installed the devices already, the National Transportation Safety Agency wants to hear your comments by February 11 on its proposal mandating them in all vehicles. Congress has empowered the agency to set motor-vehicle-safety rules.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, regulators\u2019 intentions are about safety, as the devices would trigger \u2014 for about 30 seconds \u2014 during so-called \u201cevents\u201d such as during sudden breaking, acceleration, swerving or other types of driving that might lead to an accident. The data, which can either be downloaded remotely or by a physical connection, depending upon a vehicle\u2019s model, is to be used by manufacturers and regulators \u201cprimarily for the purpose of post-crash assessment of vehicle safety system performance,\u201d according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2012-12-13\/pdf\/2012-30082.pdf\">an announcement in the Federal Register<\/a>. (.pdf)<\/p>\n<p>But privacy advocates are raising the alarm bells, and want the agency to require data safeguards, including demands that data be anonymized, and to prohibit the marketing of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}