CREATIVE LOAFING
PUTTING BIG BROTHER IN YOUR CAR
Sat Oct 2, 2004 03:57
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PUTTING BIG BROTHER IN YOUR CAR
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CREATIVE LOAFING - For 13 years, a powerful group of car manufacturers,
technology companies and government interests has fought to bring this
system to life. They envision a future in which massive databases will track
the comings and goings of everyone who travels by car or mass transit. The
only way for people to evade the national transportation tracking system
they're creating will be to travel on foot. Drive your car, and your every
movement could be recorded and archived. The federal government will know
the exact route you drove to work, how many times you braked along the way,
the precise moment you arrived -- and that every other Tuesday you opt to
ride the bus.

They'll know you're due for a transmission repair and that you've neglected
to fix the ever-widening crack that resulted from a pebble dinging your
windshield.

Once the system is brought to life, both the corporations and the government
stand to reap billions in revenues. Companies plan to use the technology to
sell endless user services and upgrades to drivers. For governments,
tracking cars' movements means the ability to tax drivers for their driving
habits, and ultimately to use a punitive tax system to control where they
drive and when, a practice US DOT documents predict will be common
throughout the country by 2022.

This system the government and its corporate partners are striving to create
goes by many names, including the information superhighway and the
Integrated Network of Transportation information, or INTI. Reams of federal
documents spell out the details of how it will operate.

Despite this, it remains one of the federal government's best-kept secrets.
Virtually nothing has been reported about it in the media. None of the
experts at the privacy rights groups Creative Loafing talked to, including
the ACLU, the Consumers Union and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, had ever
heard of the INTI. Nor had they heard of the voluminous federal documents
that spell out, in eerie futuristic tones, what data the system will collect
and how it will impact drivers' daily lives.

The involvement of the auto industry in the NWO Plan — CT, Sat Oct 2 14:45
• The link — CT, Sat Oct 2 14:46