A use case for useless eaters; Washington State's control grid playbook; and a White House video is the final frontier of political messaging (or is it trolling?).
They have had the car monitoring stuff for a long time with breathalyzer interlocks, insurance companies offering discounts to "good drivers", tracking rental cars, providing location monitoring for lienholders, and and fleet monitoring for for commercial vehicles. It is a huge money grab. They charge people for the monitoring, charge for the equipment, and use it as grounds to profile people.
Who gets the state contracts to provide the service? Who gets to set the monopoly pricing for "approved vendors"? Who gets to decide what criteria that they set for continuing the privileges? How do you determine who is at the wheel? What kind of appeal process do they intend?
I knew someone who had to do the interlock thing for driving. They had a really high monthly monitoring fee.
I believe the motivation is more of a cash grab using public safety as a pretense. Not just for the expenses for the monitoring. They get to build a whole new bureaucracy structure of plum administration positions to have control over aside from the people who are actually checking up on the monitoring.
They have had the car monitoring stuff for a long time with breathalyzer interlocks, insurance companies offering discounts to "good drivers", tracking rental cars, providing location monitoring for lienholders, and and fleet monitoring for for commercial vehicles. It is a huge money grab. They charge people for the monitoring, charge for the equipment, and use it as grounds to profile people.
Who gets the state contracts to provide the service? Who gets to set the monopoly pricing for "approved vendors"? Who gets to decide what criteria that they set for continuing the privileges? How do you determine who is at the wheel? What kind of appeal process do they intend?
I knew someone who had to do the interlock thing for driving. They had a really high monthly monitoring fee.
I believe the motivation is more of a cash grab using public safety as a pretense. Not just for the expenses for the monitoring. They get to build a whole new bureaucracy structure of plum administration positions to have control over aside from the people who are actually checking up on the monitoring.