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Jul 13, 2009

PRIVACY ? * USA - Chips In Official IDs Raise Privacy Fears

How easy is it to track you? It's been done: It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker's gold

San Francisco,CAL,USA -AP -12 July 2009: -- Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car... Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" the identifiers of four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet... Embedding identity documents — passports, drivers licenses, and the like — with RFID chips is a no-brainer to government officials. Increasingly, they are promoting it as a 21st century application of technology that will help speed border crossings, safeguard credentials against counterfeiters, and keep terrorists from sneaking into the country... But Paget's February experiment demonstrated something privacy advocates had feared for years: That RFID, coupled with other technologies, could make people trackable without their knowledge or consent...

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Dec 13, 2008

PRIVACY * Canada - Owner-ops want speed limiter privacy questions answered

With hard speed limiter enforcement just months away, Ontario transportation officials still haven't sealed up the privacy and liability loopholes that remain in he legislation

Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -12 Dec 2008: -- ... That's what Owner-Operators Business Association of Canada (OBAC) is saying, anyway... OBAC Director Joanne Ritchie wrote a letter to Peter Hurst, CVSA past president and director, Carrier Safety & Enforcement at the Ontario Ministry of Transport and Quebec Ministere des Transports Director Benoit Cayouette, reminding them that these issues regarding the 105 km/h speed limit mandate raised by the owner-op association still have not been addressed by either ministry... The rule, which applies to any truck operating in Ontario and Quebec, is scheduled to take affect Jan. 1, with an educational 'soft enforcement' period until June 2009... In the meantime, OBAC is advising its members and other truck owners to take "whatever steps are required to protect this data" until an official policy is issued by the transportation ministries in Ontario and Quebec regarding ECM data recovery and use... (Photo: If MTO inspectors want to look at your engine data, 'don't help 'em' says OBAC)

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Aug 9, 2007

Truckers’ Privacy * USA - PennDOT uses CDL data for driver recruitment

"... the practice is an invasion of truckers’ privacy because the drivers didn’t expect their CDL information to put them on a mailing list..."

PEN,USA -Land Line magazine (Grain Valley,MO) -August 8, 2007: -- The Pennsylvania DOT is looking for quite a few good men and women to fill part-time winter jobs as snow plow drivers... But the way the department is trying to recruit them is drawing criticism... PennDOT sent out about 100,000 letters to CDL holders, using names, addresses and driving histories from its own CDL computer database to generate the mailing list... State Rep. Keith Gillespie, R-York, told “Land Line Now” on XM Satellite Radio that the practice is an invasion of truckers’ privacy because the drivers didn’t expect their CDL information to put them on a mailing list...

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