{"id":61336,"date":"2025-06-25T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T20:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61336"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T20:44:03","slug":"national-review-washington-state-to-use-drivers-cell-phone-data-to-enforce-traffic-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61336","title":{"rendered":"National Review: Washington State to Use Drivers\u2019 Cell Phone Data to Enforce Traffic Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>National Review: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/washington-state-to-use-drivers-cell-phone-data-to-enforce-traffic-laws\/\">Washington State to Use Drivers\u2019 Cell Phone Data to Enforce Traffic Laws<\/a> by John R. Puri (but it just sounds like what Google collects for GPS traffic):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Washington State Patrol plans to utilize cell phone data to identify parts of the road that are high-risk for speeding. Once spots are identified, the agency will deploy additional troopers to monitor those stretches during times of higher traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data that the Washington State Patrol purchased from a company called Michelin Mobil does not yet track real-time movements, according to the agency, as it only includes records of when and where drivers most often brake, accelerate their vehicles, and use their phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency stressed that they do not have access to any other personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Review: Washington State to Use Drivers\u2019 Cell Phone Data to Enforce Traffic Laws by John R. Puri (but it just sounds like what Google collects for GPS traffic):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61336","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=61336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61337,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61336\/revisions\/61337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}