Many American cities are already adopting technologies to improve urban living –bike share systems, street parking payment through smart phones and paying tolls through E-ZPass. Let’s take Boston for example; the city has created and implemented the use of an application called Street Bump which uses accelerometers in residents’ smartphones to catalog unexpected bumps they
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Massachusetts DOT Seeks to Retain Driver Data from the State Turnpike
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy
The Massachusetts’ State Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has proposed a policy by which they would retain drivers’ speed data for 30 days after it is collected on the Massachusetts Turnpike through its new all-electronic toll stations.
MassDOT explains that the speed data must be collected in order to synchronize the new tolling system’s cameras so…