{"id":1431,"date":"2007-10-09T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T08:38:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"OnStar to aid in stopping police chases, but what else is possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onstar.com\/us_english\/jsp\/index.jsp\">OnStar<\/a> service, with 5M subscribers, will be able to stop cars so equipped by slowing the engine starting with the 2009 models. OnStar from General Motors is seeking to sell its service to other manufacturers. The GPS system of OnStar already tracks 800-900 cars a month that are stolen. This is reported in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/technology\/AP-Stop-Thief.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A thief has no expectation of privacy in a stolen car, but, as ABC News Good Morning America played up today (because it has eyecathing video of car chases), is a single sentence in the Times article: &#8220;GM would be willing to sell the technology to other automakers in an effort to cut police chases.&#8221; ABC had video of the car telling the driver it was &#8220;being stopped at the request of law enforcement.&#8221;  Private contractors can stop cars for the police. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, the story is about stopping police chases. But, how long before the police figure out that they can stop people just because they can and then walk up to ask questions under a ruse to assist?  <\/p>\n<p>This is not far fetched. Just think about it.<\/p>\n<p>[cross-posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/\">Talkleft<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1431\">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-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}