@DeezNuts 525323 wrote:
People were talking about this in my politics class the otherday actually. Most were against it, however one girl had one and she was doing anything she could to defend the choice.
Surely they could use it to do your for speeding and all manner of other traffic violations too?
The cops aren’t interested in using it for minor traffic violations as the data is owned by a private company who aren’t going to give it away for minor stuff especially as it would frighten away the young people from using the devices. However if the driver keeps going over speed limits their premium will go up and the contract does specify that the company will co-operate with law enforcement as and when required such as if a crash occured.
most traffic officers (its a specialist path which they choose to do) would rather stop a driver the street and explain to them face to face why their driving is causing a risk to the community which is how that sort of thing should be done.
the more worrying aspect is how little younger people value their privacy. Facebook and youtube are another big problem as once something is on there anyone can copy and archive it and use it against them. For instance all the youtubes of illegal raves have been used by the newspapers and telly in anti rave articles and there are entire Police teams acting on tip offs from facebook etc which they can then relate to actual crimes.
