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Privacy and ITS

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The Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal has just published an excellent special issue on privacy issues in Intelligent Transportation Systems (volume 11, number 1, March 1995). It derives from a symposium on this topic that Dorothy Glancy organized at Santa Clara University in July, 1994.

Here are some of the contents:

Norman Y. Mineta Transportation, technology, and privacy

Jeffrey H. Reiman Driving to the Panopticon

Sheldon W. Halpern The traffic in souls

Robert Weisberg IVHS, legal privacy, and the legacy of Dr. Faustus

Sheri A. Alpert Privacy and intelligent highways: Finding the right of way

Ronald D. Rotunda Computerized highways and the search for privacy in the case law

Philip E. Agre Reasoning about the future

Dorothy J. Glancy Privacy and intelligent transportation technology

According to the order form in the journal, single issues may be purchased for US$20 (or US$25 for foreign addresses) from:

Computer and High Technology Law Journal School of Law Santa Clara University Santa Clara, California 95053

(408) 554-4197

scchtlj@scuacc.scu.edu

I urge you to find out about these issues soon. ITS has the potential to deliver a wide range of useful transportation-related services, but it also has the potential to bring serious, systematic invasions of personal privacy. Important decisions about ITS architecture and privacy policy are being made now. The situation is hopeful in the sense that the major players in ITS have little structural interest in invading your privacy; privacy-invasive implementations of ITS are being planned more from inertia than from bad intent. Still, once a critical mass of systems is implemented and ITS system standards are set (whether de jure or simply de facto), it will be very difficult to change existing systems -- or even new systems that must be compatible with the existing ones -- to a more privacy-friendly architecture. For more information, see http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/its-issues.html

Phil Agre, UCSD

(This message represents my own views and not those of the University of California, Santa Clara University, or any other organization.) ```

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