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NYC TLC to requre recording of passengers in taxicabs

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The NYC Taxicab and Limosine Commission is seriously considering video recording passengers in NYC Taxicabs, according to a posting yesterday afternoon on the City Blog on NYTimes: A ‘Black Box’ for Taxicabs?: You may be recorded.” Soon, a select group of New York City yellow taxicabs will be marked with decals bearing that message. As part of a data-collection experiment, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission will install windshield-mounted cameras, similar to the “black boxes” in aircraft, that will record data on vehicle use, road accidents and other information in and around the city’s yellow taxicabs. The information about the cameras has been making the rounds of the Internet, including a Web site known as YellowCabNYC...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).