Re: Canada leads, UN follows

# are, what they can do, and what is their potential for abuse?
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# The System is called the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and you
# may find it everywhere on the net. The cameras are linked to a city
# control room, who are supposed to use them to improve traffic flow. The
# cameras are "uplinked" to the net, to satellites, and I suppose to the
# United States Transportation Command at Scott AFB or some other
# centralized information storage base. Software is being harmonized so that
# on the net you may find many countries adopting a GLOBAL ITS. The toys
# being developed by the various planners including MIT will be able to
# track your travel, monitor your vehicle emissions, determine if you have
# been drinking, and even issue you speeding tickets by mail! "Smart" cards
# 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 agre@ucsd.edu
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* Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy San Francisco, March 1995
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* This information obvi