Pay per mile: Surveillance potential can’t be ignored
“How would a pay-per-mile road tax work?” (TNT, 11/24).
The Washington Transportation Commission says that the data collected by GPS techniques for the road usage charge replacement for the state gas tax will be discarded. But those assurances are only as good as the restraint of police agencies in asking for the data.
Knowing where a car has been is an irresistible windfall of data for prosecutors putting together a case against someone. This issue has not yet been addressed in the news coverage I’ve read.
Karen Willard, Buckley
This story was originally published November 28, 2019 at 5:51 PM with the headline "Pay per mile: Surveillance potential can’t be ignored."