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Big Brother in Your Car

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By Tara Servatius

Creative Loafing (Charlotte) | September 30, 2004

The U.S. Department of Transportation and various corporations are jointly developing futuristic-sounding technology which could drastically reduce traffic fatalities, but it has potentially dire consequences for Americans' privacy.

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