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The Surveying, Mapping and GIS blog discuss an interesting story about British drivers mad at Galileo. From the Association of British Drivers press release: "The EU is already planning to use Galileo to enforce continental-wide road tolling, and the car-hating British government wants to be first. You won't be able to drive anywhere without the EU knowing where you are going, who you are travelling with, and what speed you are travelling at." Here's an older (June 2005) pertinent article from The Register.
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Alarmist
(Score:3, Insightful)That ABD press release is nothing but fearmongering. Unless you enter a destination waypoint, the GPS receiver won't know where you're going. And how can GPS/Galileo tell if I have Satri or Natalie Portman in the passenger's seat? Unless we're all fitted with RFID tags [slashgeo.org] and there's something to read them. And how will data that can be recorded be sent to the relevant agencies? Will all cars need a cellular phone for data up/download? Such an Orwellian system as these guys envision will never happen for social, technological, and financial reasons.
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(Score:3, Informative)( http://www.redgeographics.com/ )
This is fearmongering indeed, you can already be tracked through your cellphone with a reasonable degree of accuracy (in fact, I've read about tests using cellphone data to check for traffic jams... if you have a lot of cellphones that aren't going very fast on what you know is a highway... you've found a traffic jam...)
Seems to me that the ABD is looking at 'Europe' for an easy party to blame...
Hans van der Maarel