By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic of the Mass Privatel Blog First of all, let’s define a surveillance state, which will ultimately help us understand how a surveillance state affects motorists’ privacy. A 2013 Privacy International Blog took on that task with a look towards the United Kingdom. The UK data protection […]
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How a Surveillance State Affects Motorists’ Privacy?
November 18, 2020 • 0 Comments • ACLU, ALPR, Automated Traffic Cameras, DMV, DRONES, E-ZPass, Facial Recognition, NMA, Parking, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Street Lights, Technology, Toll Roads, TOLLING, Traffic Tickets
Motorists Vote 2020: Advocacy Starts at the Ballot Box: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #607
For the first time, the NMA has developed a national guide for voting called, appropriately enough, Motorists Vote 2020. The confirming (and most important) step in any advocacy effort is signified by the casting a vote in local, state, and national elections. If you don’t have time to write letters to the editor or visit […]
How to Sell a Used Car
Buying a new or newer car leaves one with the task of disposing of the vehicle being replaced. Depending on the condition, it may be junked, donated to a charity, traded in for credit towards the replacement vehicle, or sold privately. Any trade in will only be at wholesale value as the firm accepting the […]
E-ZPass is Anything But: A Motorist’s Viewpoint
This post originally appeared as an NMA E-Newsletter in February 2019. Abuses by tolling authorities continue to mount. The lawsuit filed last year in U.S. District Court by Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the NMA against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for collecting inflated tolls to pay for projects unrelated to the operation and maintenance of the Turnpike […]
Caught in the Cogs of a Bureaucratic Machine – A Driver’s Story
This post first appeared as a November 2018 NMA Weekly E-Newsletter (#515). Since early August (2018), the Virginia Department of Motor vehicles continued to badger one of our Virginia members, Mike, about needing proof of insurance for a vehicle that only had, per agency records, 16 characters in its Vehicle Identification Number. Since VINs have […]
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