US authorities intend to track the movement of citizens by car

[Детективное агентство Тула]

MOSCOW, February 19, 2014
- RIA News-

The US Department of Homeland Security has announced a tender to create a database that can track the movements of more than a billion cars in the country, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.


According to tender documents, the database will contain information about cars registered in the USA. The dossier for each car will include a photograph of the vehicle, its registration number and other information. Using street-mounted readers, agents from the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE), part of the ministry, can quickly locate the vehicle of the alleged offender.

The ministry intentionally introduce this system to track illegal migrants. The ministry assures that "access to the database will be carried out only as part of criminal investigations or to search for wanted persons." Amid the scandals caused by the exposure of the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs, the ministry’s plans explainably raised concerns among human rights defenders about possible abuses by the US government. Human rights activists suggest that the database can be used to monitor ordinary citizens who have not broken the law.

According to human rights activists, it is also likely that ICE will provide databases to other US agencies that will use the information for their own purposes. ICE representatives are trying to address these concerns, suggesting that the database will be managed by a commercial firm, not a government agency. However, these arguments are not enough for human rights defenders, who call the ministry’s plans “another example of the government’s love for mass surveillance.”

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[Андрей Захаров]

Yes ... It’s all famously how it turns out ... It’s not going to be the government to monitor at all ... But the commercial structure ... As well as the money there, it’s not the government that “releases” it ... But other persons .. .

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

BEFORE HEAP:

Insurers and the Ministry of Transport offer to arrange accidents on Europrotocol using tachographs
MOSCOW, February 19. / ITAR-TASS /. The Russian Union of Auto Insurers (RSA) and the Ministry of Transport suggest using tachographs for registration of traffic accidents at Europrotocol (without the participation of the traffic police_, RSA President Pavel Bunin told reporters.


The day before, the first meeting of the working group of the Russian Union of Auto Insurers (RSA) and the Federal State Institution Rosavtotrans of the Ministry of Transport of Russia was held, which discussed the possibility of using special technical devices in vehicles that provide continuous, uncorrected registration of information to fix the accident.

“Since our main task is to provide mechanisms to ensure the continuity and reliability of data that ensure the registration of traffic accidents, we see two ways so far - the use of GLONASS navigation satellite technologies and the use of tachographs with cryptographic information protection means,” Bunin said.

Both types of equipment accurately record data on the geographical position of the vehicle and the time of the accident. In addition, the information received cannot be independently corrected or erased, which ensures its reliability and legal significance. According to Bunin, RSA is already working on studying the possibilities of using GLONASS navigation equipment, developing technical requirements for equipment, data requirements and data transfer procedures. RSA also selects organizations working with monitoring systems and is currently conducting tests.

In turn, the Director General of the Federal State Institution “Rosavtotrans” Sergey Sukharev noted that within the framework of the joint working group it is planned to consider in detail the possibilities of using these tachographs in the settlement of insurance cases and to develop appropriate proposals for amending the law on compulsory motor liability insurance. “Accounting for the Federal State Institution“ Rosavtotrans ”of all tachographs installed on vehicles will allow for the establishment of information interaction in solving operational issues of insurance and disassembly of accidents,” he said.

The proposal on the need to equip vehicles with special technical devices arose in connection with the forthcoming amendments to the OSAGO law, according to which it is proposed to introduce a "unlimited" Europrotocol in four regions (Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region), and expand in other regions the maximum payment limit without the participation of the traffic police is up to 50 thousand rubles. To date, the amendments provide that such a procedure for the design of accidents is possible only if the means of photo or video fixation are used. However, according to representatives of the Ministry of Transport and insurers, some of these devices do not ensure the continuity and inconsistency of incoming vehicle data and can increase the growth of insurance fraud.

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[Андрей Захаров]

Thank you Konstantin Mikhailovich))) And here it’s not at all clear at whose expense “banquet” ... Who will pay for the installation of equipment on machines ... If at the expense of car owners, then at all .... Especially if it will be necessary. ..