The Implications of Current and Emerging Privacy Law for ITS
As Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) incorporate data-gathering and compiling systems into the transportation infrastructure, questions about privacy implications stemming from the potential misallocation or abuse of collected data have started to arise. The United States has no comprehensive national regulatory structure for privacy, leaving answers to these privacy questions to be found through a consideration of variety of sources of federal and state privacy law. In this paper, the authors examine a number of the areas where privacy law could impact ITS projects. To address these concerns, developers and planners of ITS technologies have to navigate a myriad of legal considerations and consequences that correspond with the ways in which they utilize the technologies and the information they collect. In an attempt to assist in that endeavor, the final part of this paper suggests tools for ITS developers and planners that explain the level of restrictions that correspond with different kinds of information being collected.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 280 Humphrey Center
Minneapolis, MN United States 55455Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute
200 Transportation and Safety Building
511 Washington Avenue, S.W.
Minneapolis, MN United States 55455Research and Innovative Technology Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Douma, Frank
- Deckenbach, Jordan
- Publication Date: 2008-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Edition: Final Report
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 42p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Data collection; Federal laws; Intelligent transportation systems; Legal factors; Privacy; State laws
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Highways; Law; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01153261
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: CTS 08-26, CTS Project 2008010
- Files: UTC, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Mar 26 2010 10:42AM