{"id":14447,"date":"2012-06-01T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14447"},"modified":"2012-06-04T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:35:05","slug":"cfif-joins-coalition-against-black-box-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14447\/cfif-joins-coalition-against-black-box-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"CFIF Joins Coalition Against Black Box Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Individual Freedom (&#8220;CFIF&#8221;)\u00a0this week joined a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboxmandate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">coalition<\/a> of leading free market organizations opposing the federal Black Box Mandate, a provision included in the Senate version of the Highway Bill (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/2012\/04\/will-the-new-transportation-bill-mandate-black-boxes-in-all-new-cars\/#more-440873\" target=\"_blank\">SEC. 31406 of S. 1813<\/a>) that would require all passenger motor vehicles in the United States, beginning with model year 2015, to be fitted with event data recorders (EDRs) that would collect all driving habits of consumers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The provision, which is currently being contemplated in a House-Senate conference committee on the Highway Bill, threatens to violate the privacy rights of consumers and burdens manufactures and small businesses with yet another costly, misguided\u00a0and unnecessary federal mandate.<\/p>\n<p>CFIF is encouraging all of our supporters and activists to visit the coalition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboxmandate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> and sign the pledge to their Members of Congress and President Obama \u201cto oppose any federal action to mandate the use of black box data recorders in personal vehicles.\u201d\u00a0 The pledge goes on to state that the Black Box Mandate:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is an infringement on personal privacy and freedoms.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Would be a slippery slope for Government to track citizen&#8217;s transportation habits and location.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Is both an unnecessary expansion of government police power and an undue mandate on consumers and business.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboxmandate.org\/\">http:\/\/www.blackboxmandate.org<\/a> to sign the pledge now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Individual Freedom (&#8220;CFIF&#8221;)\u00a0this week joined a coalition of leading free market organizations opposing the federal Black Box Mandate, a provision included in the Senate version of the Highway Bill (SEC. 31406 of S. 1813) that would require all passenger motor vehicles in the United States, beginning with model year 2015, to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3586,3585,801,300,3587],"class_list":["post-14447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-black-box-mandate","tag-highway-bill","tag-privacy","tag-regulation","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14450,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447\/revisions\/14450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}