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# may be used to automatically track individual people and deduct tolls or
# bus fares.
* REMARKS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
* Technology and Privacy in Intelligent Transportation Systems
* http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/cfp-its.html Phil Agre :pagre@ucsd.edu
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* Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy San Francisco, March 1995
*
* Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are being developed in most of
* the industrialized countries. Promoters of such systems envision
* information technology being applied to transportation systems in a
* variety of ways, primarily on public highways. Applications extend from
* wireless provision of traffic information to drivers to automatic
* toll-collection to law enforcement to totally automated vehicles.
*
* ITS may entail the collection of large amounts of information on the
* travels of particular people, for example through the automatic
* collection of tolls through road-side radio beacons that interact
* with transponders attached to individual cars.
*
* This information obviously invites a wide range of secondary uses, from
* law enforcement to targeted marketing to political repression. The rules
* governing the collection, dissemination, and protection of this
* information have not yet been settled, although the decision-making
* process is already fairly far along.
*
* If ITS lives up to the expectations of its developers then it will have
* implications for virtually everybody. Yet public awareness of ITS is very
* low, and awareness of the privacy issues in ITS is low even in the
* community of privacy advocates.
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