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godsdeth (dr4kdr0u) profile picture
**YOUR CAR**

Automakers have already sold your driving data. General Motors sent names, addresses, VINs, trip logs, hard braking, acceleration, and speeding events from OnStar users to data brokers Verisk and LexisNexis. Many drivers never knew. In January 2026 the Federal Trade Commission called the practice an egregious betrayal and banned GM from selling sensitive driving and location data to brokers for five years. The business model stays intact. LexisNexis also sells its Accurint platform to the Department of Justice, ICE, Secret Service, and hundreds of local agencies. No warrant needed when police buy the profile from a private broker.

Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Act orders the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require advanced impaired driving prevention technology in every new passenger vehicle built from November 2026 onward. Driver facing cameras, steering analysis, alcohol sensors in the wheel. Rulemaking continues. No federal law yet limits what the automaker can do with the biometric data or stops it from selling that data to the same brokers that supply law enforcement.

**WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS**

CrimeWatch Technologies began as a sex offender photo magazine, grew with state money, expanded on federal grants, and now sits inside your township police department running a special needs registry with no borders and a privacy policy that protects almost nothing.

JNET holds tens of millions of your driver license photos searchable without a warrant by five hundred agencies, owned by a private nonprofit formally cited for breaking federal grant rules, and still running after twenty years with zero state legislation.

The Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association takes sponsorship money from the very surveillance vendors whose tools it oversees, while its own audits go unaddressed.

The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators runs the national REAL ID backbone as a private nonprofit shielded from public records laws, feeding the same photos straight into JNET.

LexisNexis bought your driving behavior from General Motors and sold it to insurers while simultaneously selling investigative intelligence to every level of law enforcement.

The 2026 vehicle mandate will install monitoring systems in every new car with no data protection rules attached.

These are not separate programs. They are one system built on the same choice repeated at every level of government: outsource the function to a private company, structure that company to dodge public records laws and constitutional limits, and let the legislature stay silent.
ethfi · 2d
Pleasantly surprised