Major auto manufacturers are now building event data recorders (EDRs) — or black boxes — into our cars. Like an airplane’s flight data recorder, an automobile EDR is designed to prove exactly what happened in the moments leading up to and right after an “event,” such as an accident. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National [...]
mobile tracking
Over the past few months, there have been countless reports about smartphones tracking the movements of Americans. As Robert Lee Hotz discusses in his article The Really Smart Phone, published in April 2011 in The Wall Street Journal, Apple and Google have come under increasing pressure for monitoring their customers without their knowledge. But shelving [...]
