Congestion Pricing: Threat to Locational Privacy?
Congestion Pricing poses a threat to locational privacy. What this means and why you should care.
Q: What does locational privacy mean?
A: Locational privacy means the ability to walk in public space and drive on public roads with the expectation that one’s movements are not being tracked or recorded for later analysis.
Q: How will congestion pricing violate my locational privacy?
A: Congestion pricing systems track drivers in order to charge them for their road usage. In practice, congestion pricing systems use pervasive networks of cameras and electronic tag readers to charge drivers and catch violators. Some proposed systems require a GPS transmitter in every car to assess charges based on the car’s recorded path. Almost all of the designs in use or under consideration require the tolling authority to build a giant database of tracking information that includes data for each driver who uses the congestion pricing zone.
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