{"id":60799,"date":"2025-04-14T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60799"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:41:33","slug":"bloomberg-law-bootleggers-cops-and-cars-how-driving-became-a-privacy-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60799","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Law: Bootleggers, Cops, and Cars: How Driving Became a Privacy Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bloomberg Law: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/bootleggers-cops-and-cars-how-driving-became-a-privacy-trap\">Bootleggers, Cops, and Cars: How Driving Became a Privacy Trap<\/a> by Cassandre Coyer, Tonya Riley &amp; Jorja Siemons about automatic license plate readers in Norfolk VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A subheading:  &#8220;Data a Modern Car Can Collect&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Biometric Data: Sensors and interior cameras can collect unique physical characteristics used to identify and verify drivers. Examples: voice recordings, eye movements, facial recognition, fingerprints<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physiological Data: Some vehicles, especially those in fleets, have AI-powered detection capabilities to catch drowsiness or inattention, and sensors that could detect alcohol levels. Examples: intoxication, driver fatigue, inattention, heart rate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cellphone and Mobile Apps Data: Anything done with a phone connected to a car, including calls, texts, and purchases, can be collected. Examples: call logs, contact lists, SMS messages, social media feeds, payment information, language, music preferences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Location and GPS Data: Vehicles can collect precise latitude and longitude details for navigation and as part of emergency assistance and other safety features. Examples: trips to children\u2019s schools, medical clinics, places of worship, protests, home address<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usage and Driving Behavior Data: Certain car manufacturers&#8217; applications, usage-based insurance devices, and in-vehicle features collect details about how a car is operated. Examples:<br \/>driving patterns, accelerations, braking, idle time, speed, seat belt use<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vehicle Operations and Accident Data: An event data recorder, a car&#8217;s equivalent of a black box, collects crash data. Examples: state of car pre- and post-crash, severity of crash, whether seatbelts were used or airbags deployed, direction from which vehicle was hit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Sensitive Data: Increasingly sophisticated connected features may inadvertently collect sensitive personal details about passengers. Examples: weight, children&#8217;s data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Law: Bootleggers, Cops, and Cars: How Driving Became a Privacy Trap by Cassandre Coyer, Tonya Riley &amp; Jorja Siemons about automatic license plate readers in Norfolk VA. A subheading: &#8220;Data a Modern Car Can Collect&#8221;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60802,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799\/revisions\/60802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}