Reuters: "Move aside, backseat driver! New tech at CES monitors you inside car"

https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70686

(Internet Archive link because the article now 404's.)

This type of tracking of a driver and car occupants can indeed provide useful features---both safety and convenience. But I would only be in favor of this sort of thing if it were free software and the car were under complete control of the user, and the system could be wholly disabled with clearly visible and unambiguous hardware switch, which is also visible to passengers.

But proprietary systems doing this will be incentivized to sell data to third parties. The article gives some examples of some terrible uses of this type of tracking.

As we move further and further into the future where these types of things are going to become more commonplace, the goal IMO shouldn't be to resist technological progress---it should be to ensure that it _empowers_ users, rather than making them servants or products.

#privacy #surveillance #ethics