by Sean McLinden
In 2007, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine made the news twice for a single event. The first time was the report of a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in which he was seriously injured. The second time was a report, which appeared a few days later, detailing how the governor's account of the accident had been contradicted by a witness, his automobile. Since 2000, most US cars have been equipped with a 'black box' known as the Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder. Standards for a common data set, including protections against data theft, altering of vehicle information, odometer fraud and misuse of collected data on owners and drivers are the subject of the IEEE 1616a Standards for Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorders (MVEDRs). In spite of such protections, a number of states have enacted privacy protections which regulate the recovery and use of such data…
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