Intelligent Transportation Systems
*   http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/cfp-its.html Phil Agre :pa...@ucsd.edu
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*   Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy San Francisco, March 1995
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*   Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are being developed in most of
*   the industrialized countries. Promoters of such systems envision
*   information technology being applied to transportation systems in a
*   variety of ways, primarily on public highways. Applications extend from
*   wireless provision of traffic information to drivers to automatic
*   toll-collection to law enforcement to totally automated vehicles.
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*   ITS may entail the collection of large amounts of information on the
*   travels of particular people, for example through the automatic
*   collection of tolls through road-side radio beacons that interact
*   with transponders attached to individual cars.
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*   This information obviously invites a wide range of secondary uses, from
*   law enforcement to targeted marketing to political repression. The rules
*   governing the collection, dissemination, and protection of this
*   information have not yet been settled, although the decision-making
*   process is already fairly far along.
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*   If ITS lives up to the expectations of its developers then it will have
*   implications for virtually everybody. Yet public awareness of ITS is very
*   low, and

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