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GmoneyOwnsYou Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 04:16 AM
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Feds plan to track every car
A little-known federal agency is planning a new monitoring program by which the government would track every car on the road by using onboard transceivers.

The agency, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, is part of the Department of Transportation. According to an extensive report in the Charlotte, N.C., Creative Loafing, the agency doesn't respond to public inquiries about its activity.

According to the report, cutting-edge tracking technology will be used by government transportation management centers to monitor every aspect of transportation. Under the plan, not only will movement be monitored but it also will be archived in massive databases for future use.

The paper reports a group of car manufacturers, technology companies and government interests have worked toward implementing the project for 13 years.

continue...http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40795
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 04:23 AM
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1. Interesting. But I don't care for that publication.
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wackywill Donating Member (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 04:37 AM
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2. If so I may start a new business.
Removing tracking devices.
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 05:10 AM
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3. What a "charming" website, not only is it one of the "official"
rightwingnut rags but it also loads your computer w/ illicit tracking cookies! One needs more than underarm deodorant for this sleaze rag . . . heh.

Slinging all kinds of probables into a non-cohesive ball then calling it "journalism." Down the road, of course, it's these very entities that scream and rail against lawyers who sue the beejesus out of these federal agencies and corporations if and when this kind of intrusive crap against privacy ever comes to fruition --- ah, that "tort reform!!"

Doncha love it?!! The ignorance is as high as the tide with a full moon in a hurricane five.


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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 05:22 AM
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4. World Net Daily
Is on par with Weekly World News. Locking as not LBN.
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