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ACLU: Police must get warrants to obtain personal data from cars
You might not think of your car as a treasure trove of personal data, but it frequently is -- performance data, phone contacts and location info may be sitting under the hood. And the American Civil Liberties Union wants to be sure police can't just take it. The organization is appearing as a friend of the court in Georgia's Supreme Court on June 19th to argue that personal data on cars is protected by the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment and thus requires a warrant. The appearance is tied to a case, Mobley vs. State, where police used a car's "black box" to level more serious charges.
After a deadly car crash, Georgia police downloaded data from the Event Data Recorder on Mobley's car to determine his speed before the crash, using that to level more severe accusations against him. Georgia has contended that this was legal under the Fourth Amendment's "vehicle exception" allowing searches for physical items, but the ACLU believes this doesn't count for digital data. It likened this to requiring a warrant for phone data -- just because the device holding the data is obtainable without a warrant doesn't mean the data is also up for grabs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 19 2019, @10:42PM (1 child)
Further BS detected:
Couldn't find the US reg for cars, but did find this for commercial vehicles, didn't you drive truck at some time?
ยง393.82 Speedometer.
Each bus, truck, and truck-tractor must be equipped with a speedometer indicating vehicle speed in miles per hour and/or kilometers per hour. The speedometer must be accurate to within plus or minus 8 km/hr (5 mph) at a speed of 80 km/hr (50 mph).
[70 FR 48054, Aug. 15, 2005]
Also found reference to a Euro reg that requires the speedometer to never read low, so you are correct on that continent.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 20 2019, @01:46PM
Did you do the math, and figure out the percentages there? That particular regulation allows for 10% error, greater than the error rate that I mentioned.
I'm not digging for the law, regulation, or whatever. I've read it often enough in the past, to be sure that it's for real. Speedo must be accurate, or it must read low, but it must be within 3 to 6%.