All New EU Vehicles To Be Fitted With Surveillance Black Boxes

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All new vehicles sold in the EU will now have mandatory black boxes fitted that record technical data which will be accessible to authorities.

At the moment drivers can opt-out of using the feature, but privacy advocates say the technology will become mandatory once it is properly rolled out.

They also warn that latest move greases the skids for surveillance-powered speed limiting technology.

Summit news reports: Back in 2019, the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) announced that July 6 would mark the day when all car manufacturers would be forced to fit new models with a system that keeps track of technical data.

The data recorded will include “the vehicle’s speed, braking, steering wheel angle, its incline on the road, and whether the vehicle’s various safety systems were in operation, starting with seatbelts.”

Although insurance companies won’t have immediate access to the data, it will be available to law enforcement.

Authorities claim the data will be “anonymized,” meaning the information can’t be used to identify the owner of the vehicle, although only the incredibly naive would plausibly believe that.

Such systems are expected to eventually include speed-limiting technology.

As Reclaim the Net’s Didi Rankovic explains, the most common method of speed limiting technology is Intelligent Speed Assistant (ISA).

“ISA works using GPS data alone, cameras for traffic sign recognition fitted to the front of the car, or a combination of the two. A speed limiter affects the engine power and in that way decreases speed.”

“Like the name suggests, speed limiters are designed to prevent drivers from exceeding certain speed limits, and prompt them via audio, visual, and haptic warnings until they “obey” and slow down.”

For decades, governments have been pushing for all cars to be fitted with black boxes that track location data.

The ultimate dystopian scenario involves giving police the power to utilize similar technology to completely disable the functioning of a vehicle if the driver is deemed to have committed an infraction.

20 Comments

  1. Oh right And what happens when for emergency reasons if you can’t speed them your trapped in a flood or fire or whatever?

  2. Nothing that 1/4 inch or 10mm, pair of wire cutters and some electrical tape can’t fix.

    You own your tech or it owns you.

      • What am I missing in your opinion?

        The way I see it, if I know how any particular technology operate, I can easily find methods of suppression, bypasses or even exploits to use it for my benefit. My favorite thing to do, actually. Turning opponents weapons against them.

        • I’m all in favor of resistance but you need to pick your battles. They have many ways already to track your movements, so if you start moving around at car-like speeds and reg’ plate readers see your number moving around, but your black box says your car didn’t leave your driveway? It’s not the old days where you wait for a white car with a blue light to flash and sound a siren, then run away. Today they’ll just freeze your bank account, lock you out of society and confiscate your car. We’re literally entering the world of Minority Report and you think you can disable it all with some wire cutters? They’d just use you as an example why we need stricter sentencing and more intrusive microchips injected in our ass.

          • Yeah I understand that. But think about what happens when you have hundreds or thousands of cars ‘that didn’t leave the driveway’. Think how any surveillance system operate on a strategic level. What is the primary motivation for surveillance? You use it to gather information on potential threats, right? This is already a vulnerability point that can be exploited. If I’m aware of surveillance, I can feed you any kind of information I like. I can play on your fears to drive your actions. Using that information and surveillance system itself I can figure out methods of operation, data storage locations, response times and so on. Essentially your surveillance tool becomes my surveillance tool. So ‘cutting the cord’ is just one of the ways you can deal with it.

          • The surveillance authority has already failed. They will never admit it only double down. It’s useful for silencing truth-tellers and other infidels.

          • Yeah I’ve noticed them using various intimidation tactics. That J6 thing is a good example. They use propaganda machine to basically threaten the population into submission. It is really just empty threats since they have nothing to back it up with.

          • I spent 7 years as a men’s rights activist, especially for father’s rights, and I’m far too familiar with how people will totally agree with you, yet not lift a finger to do the slightest task or take even the slightest risk, to have any great faith in the idea of hundreds of thousands of people doing ANYTHING except comply and cave. I hope to be pleasantly surprised but I won’t hold my breath.

          • You realized the futility of your cause just as I did. From what I hear most MRAs identify as MGTOW now. Entire MRM is a reactionary movement. Even if we have got sufficient social propagation to win hearts and minds and achieve some results, it wouldn’t have mattered. Feminism is a Marxist-based ideology. It was designed as a destructive ideology and aimed to destroy society on a family level. Any reactionary movement to it simply speeds up the process. What we basically did with our ‘activism’ is played in the hands of social engineers driving their agendas.

          • Well I MGTOWED my ass out of the UK and married a man-loving, family-loving Asian lady with a phd who speaks 3 languages. 17 years later she still has zero cellulite and the last thing she said to me was “Love you!” as I walked up the stairs just now. Ain’t EVER going back… Sadly the WEF/Neo-Marxist asswipes are worming their way into SE Asia too but hey I’m old. Hopefully I’ll have died of old age before it really gets a grip here.

          • My automobile insurance company gives me a discount on my premium, if I insert a small tracking device in my car’s diagnostic port under the dashboard that reports mileage on any given day, and if I exceed the speed limit. If I really needed to, I could remove it for a while then replace it. But the idea of making such a device hard wired and mandatory smacks of police state surveillance.

          • That is actually more dangerous that mandatory tracking. The stealth implementation of tracking using financial incentives or convenience gradually adapts people to tyranny. It’s like a drug. This is how Microshaft and Giggle injected their influence into society. Basic idea is hooking users, expanding and nullifying competition and finally taking full control.

          • Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realise you were so dim. Even so, please don’t follow through with your plan, as they’ll use that as an excuse to be even more intrusive

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