GPS in cars is an interesting one. Where does the Brazilian government mandate that the data is stored/transmitted, then?
You have to note that if you carry a mobile phone the state has easy access to equivalent data anyway (even when you're not in a car), so the reality is most people are providing it regardless of car GPS-related rules. (Co-presence of other device, movement time, and a rudimentary analysis of movement speed would be adequate information to determine one's probable mode of transport and activity profile ... habitual commute, unexpected deviation from established norm, etc.)
I was in Denmark recently and was reliably advised that the government tax department needs no warrant to access mobile phone location records for validation purposes. No warrant. On top of that, ATMs are curiously hard to find and businesses cannot spend over 10,000DKR/year in cash without triggering a government audit. Brazil is clearly not alone.
The sad fact is that most people are unaware, and the majority of the world is either sleepwalking in to totalitarianism or is there already.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that as system designers, builders or more (in-)directly as promoters of tech-fetishism, we in this community are equally at fault. We each have a responsibility to resist the construction and use of easily corrupted centralized systems and to educate those around us about their dangers.
You have to note that if you carry a mobile phone the state has easy access to equivalent data anyway (even when you're not in a car), so the reality is most people are providing it regardless of car GPS-related rules. (Co-presence of other device, movement time, and a rudimentary analysis of movement speed would be adequate information to determine one's probable mode of transport and activity profile ... habitual commute, unexpected deviation from established norm, etc.)
I was in Denmark recently and was reliably advised that the government tax department needs no warrant to access mobile phone location records for validation purposes. No warrant. On top of that, ATMs are curiously hard to find and businesses cannot spend over 10,000DKR/year in cash without triggering a government audit. Brazil is clearly not alone.
The sad fact is that most people are unaware, and the majority of the world is either sleepwalking in to totalitarianism or is there already.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that as system designers, builders or more (in-)directly as promoters of tech-fetishism, we in this community are equally at fault. We each have a responsibility to resist the construction and use of easily corrupted centralized systems and to educate those around us about their dangers.