Thursday, May 31, 2012

Privacy Group Wants to Put the Brakes on Google's Driverless Cars


Petrou, Andrea. "Privacy Group Wants to Put the Brakes on Google's Driverless Cars." TechEye, May 31, 2012.

From the article: "A privacy group wants to put the brakes on Google's driverless cars, demanding that they shouldn't be allowed on the road until privacy legislation has been put into place.

The Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, is demanding that the technology

is incorporated into a bill, SB 1289, which would see proper legislation around this technology, put into place to protect people.

It said without this legislation, Google's vehicles would be able to gather "unprecedented amounts of information about the use of those vehicles" with no documentation on how this would be used in the future." Read more