[djmcmath]

I'd love to provide a dissenting opinion, but I'm all in agreement on this one. Privacy violations have gone too far. The insurance company should have to work to figure out if I was speeding. Given the questionable tie between speed enforcement and traffic safety (and the much stronger tie between speed enforcement and revenue for insurance co's and police depts), stuff like this scares the living daylights out of me.

On the bright side, if I'm ever unfortunate enough to own a car with black box tracking, I'll wager that the folks over at Slashdot will figure out a way to "repair" it so it operates like I'd prefer, rather than like Big Brother would prefer. It'd be a lot better to nip this sort of nonsense in the bud, before it ever makes it to that point, however.

On a related note, rumor has it that the UK is pushing for every inch of pulbic roadway being carpeted by radar cameras. (Validation from any UK Pelicans?) Same effect as having continual trackers in your car, quite frankly. Promotes an environment where drivers are more closely focused on the speedo than on the road around them, which I find personally more dangerous.

Aargh.

Dan