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Web Bugs & Your Privacy

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Web bugs are small bits of code embedded in Websites that add functionality and share information. They’re almost impossible to ignore, but Jim Rapoza has some advice for keeping your privacy healthy nonetheless.

Achooo! Sorry, there are these bugs going around that are really bringing me down. I thought I had protected myself, but I was focused on this other thing and didn’t even know about the threat of these bugs, which it turns out are very common.

Sick? No, I’m not sick (that sneeze was just allergies). The bugs I’m talking about aren’t bringing my health down; they are bringing my privacy down.

The bugs I’m talking about are Web bugs, and they are as common on the Web as links. How do they get on the Web? Are they put up by nefarious criminals?

Well, while criminals do use them, these bugs are put on the Web by pretty much everyone. I myself have put a large number of Web bugs on the sites I have built and managed.

Why did I do this? Same reason most people do—for analytics, to mash data from other sites, to participate in social networks and to add content to sites.

But I’m participating in practices that potentially dwarf the threat of cookies when it comes to invading the privacy of Web users. And, unlike cookies, as a user there is very little one can do to protect your privacy from this threat.

So what are Web bugs? Simply put, they are small bits of code embedded in Websites that add functionality and share information. They are used by everything from Google Analytics, to ad networks, to popular blogging platforms, to social networks, to affiliate shopping programs.

A recent study done by the University of California at Berkeley took an in-depth look at the privacy problems caused by Web bugs. The results were so worrisome that the organization launched a Website, knowprivacy.org, to help educate users about the threat to their privacy.

When a Web bug is on a site, it communicates back to its parent site to carry out its functionality. So, when you open my Website, you are also sending information to my analytics provider, my ad network and any other sites I may be partnering with. And your data can be tracked across every site that uses the bug, even if you block cookies and do everything else possible to protect your privacy.

The other scary thing is that Web bugs are rarely mentioned in Website privacy policies, and they seem exist as a loophole in most sites policies. A common statement in most site policies is that they will not share data with third parties. But, in the case of a Web bug, the site isn’t actually sharing data; your browser is sending the data directly to the third party outside of any action by the main site.

And, given how widespread many of these networks are, the illusion of Web privacy may be just that–an illusion.

Take, for example, Google, which says it won’t be evil. But, if it wanted to, it could be very evil indeed. Between its multiple networks and affiliates–such as Google Analytics, Doubleclick and Google AdSense–it has Web bugs on a great many Websites.

Conceivably, even if you block cookies and constantly flush your cache, Google could, through its Web bugs, identify your IP address, operating system and browser, and track your movements and activities across every site that uses its Web bugs.

Now, I’m not saying that Google is doing this, but there are companies and networks that probably aren’t hesitant to get the most value that they can out of this data–no matter what it means to your privacy.

What can you do to protect yourself? Outside of not using the Web, constantly changing your IP address or using an anonymous network such as Tor, there isn’t much you can do.

That’s why–just as with cookies–users need to become aware and vigilant about Web bugs, and make sure that sites explain how they are using this data.

Otherwise, Web privacy could get a lot sicker.

Jim Rapoza

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UK on target to tackle global warming, apparently

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The UK is on target to exceed its Kyoto commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent, according to a report.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has indicated that UK greenhouse gas emissions are expected to be around 23 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010, exceeding the Kyoto target of 12.5 per cent.

In a report to the United Nations, the department outlined its policies to help the UK almost double its emissions reductions targets.

It also highlighted long term measures to reduce climate change including the Climate Change Act, which requires the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.

The department stressed the importance of international agreements in reducing carbon emissions in its report.

It comes as officials prepare for a meeting on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, with discussions focusing on a successor for the existing Kyoto agreement.

Climate change minister Joan Ruddock said: “Our latest report to the UN shows what can be achieved when government, communities and business work together to reduce emissions.

“We already have significant achievements under our belt, but we know there is more to be done - we must continue to work urgently to reduce our emissions further and faster.”

She continued: “But our progress report tells those who claim there is no alternative to a high-carbon society: there is an alternative. We’re creating an alternative.

“We know that individual actions account for more than 40 per cent of emissions, so I would urge people around the country to use ‘world environment day’ as a chance to assess their own impact on the environment, and take steps to reduce their individual carbon footprint.”

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Sir Alan Sugar ‘to receive peerage’

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Sir Alan Sugar will receive a peerage as part of a new enterprise role in the Government, a source said today.

The businessman, who has been in talks with the Prime Minister, is expected to be given a seat in the House of Lords as part of Gordon Brown’s reshuffle.

A spokesman for the multi-millionaire businessman would not comment on the move but details of the appointment were believed to have been ironed out yesterday in Downing Street.

Sir Alan, famous for his catchphrase “you’re fired” on television show The Apprentice, was seen slipping into Number 10 yesterday morning.

A long-standing friend and supporter of Mr Brown, he is also a member of the Premier’s Business Council for Britain, which advises him on issues affecting enterprise and the economy.

Sir Alan gave no hint of his pending appointment during TV interviews today but offered his full support for the Prime Minister.

He insisted the Premier would not stand down: “I am pretty sure that if it was as dire as you are making out he would have done the right thing.

“He is not going to step down and the reason for that is that he must have the support of the good people and of the right people.”

Asked about the resignation of former Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell he said: “You will always have some people who will jump ship, there is no question of that. There are always people, not only in politics but in business that don’t agree with certain things.

“One person writing a letter doesn’t mean that everyone is collapsing like a pack of cards.”

By Ben Padley, Press Association

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The Ugly Side of Globalization: Slavery

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The offer came to families on the edge of desperation, living and working around the clock on garbage dumps whose sickening stench seeps into their clothes.

A motherly woman accompanied by a kindly gentleman arrived one day in early December, shortly before the New Year’s Tet celebration when the poorest of the poor hope for a little extra cash for modest festivities. The two said they were looking for attractive young women to work in a Ho Chi Minh City cafe, and they were ready to give each family a $60 advance — a small fortune for people barely scraping by on a couple of dollars a day — or less.

Though at least two fathers objected, they were overruled by their wives and daughters, who were willing to take any risk to help their struggling clans. After examining each girl like livestock, the man chose five of the prettiest teenagers, and picked two more from a neighboring area. The teens quickly packed a few belongings and left.

Seventeen-year-old Truong Thi Nhi Linh was one of those chosen. It was, she says, the best chance to help her family — a chance to make considerably more money than she earns working 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. in the dump, sloshing around on rainy nights in knee-high sludge among swarms of other workers looking for bits of junk.

She reassured her parents, who opposed her leaving. “I said, ‘It’s OK. I’m just going to work.” She added, “I want to help my family.”

later, one of the few parents with a cell phone received a panicked call from their daughter — they were not headed north to Ho Chi Minh City but to Cambodia, where the girls would be forced into the sex trade.

It is a misfortune that falls on many young women in Southeast Asia with the twin vulnerabilities of being pretty and poor. Like their parents, they often are illiterate and profoundly uninformed about the dangers of international sex trafficking and how strangers drug or lure unsuspecting teens into a life of satisfying the cravings of foreign men. Their innocence is prized: Some Asian men are willing to pay as much as $600 to have sex with a virgin because they believe it will restore their youth, give them good fortune or even cure them of AIDS.

Vietnam, with an abundance of beautiful young women living in desperate straits, is a magnet for human brokers — some of whom pay families to marry off their daughters to men in Korea, Taiwan and China; others are linked directly to human trafficking. Parents often ignore the dangers to their daughters in pursuit of a better life.

“The families are so poor,” said Quach Thi Phan, chairwoman of the Women’s Union of Rach Gia City in Kien Giang Province, which organizes anti-trafficking educational campaigns. “They just think about how to get money, how to find a job.”

In the case of the Rach Gia girls, the police conducted a last-minute raid near the Cambodian border to rescue them after receiving calls from a community member and, eventually, at least one worried parent. The almost routine incident received no local news coverage, underscoring the virtual daily threat to the world’s underclass.

“It’s globalization in its ugliest form,” said Diep Vuong, president of Pacific Links Foundation, a Milpitas-based non-profit started by Vietnamese-Americans. The organization works to prevent human trafficking by providing educational opportunities to at-risk Vietnamese girls and those who escape the sex trade.

“If you don’t know how to read the public announcements or have enough money for newspapers and you barely have enough to eat, how can you understand there are risks?” she said. “It’s so easy to look the other way. I meet many young women who say, ‘I know it’s risky, but I must try because we are so poor.’ I tell them, ‘Do you think you’ll be able to sleep with 15 guys a day?’ They are mostly terrified and surprised; ‘What are you talking about?’ they ask.”

A half-million young women are trafficked each year around the world, according to the U.S. State Department. In Vietnam, the government recently reported that last year there were 6,684 victims of trafficking, with 2,579 returned to their homes. It also said there were 21,038 people reported missing who could have been sold into prostitution.

Vietnamese authorities in recent years have moved aggressively to stop sex trafficking. Police in the home province of the seven teens, for instance, have officers dedicated to cracking down on traffickers. Overall, though, neither the national nor local governments has enough resources to adequately fight the problem, experts say.

In 2004, NBC’s “Dateline” news show broadcast a report about Cambodia’s sex trade. To the horror of the Vietnamese-American community, the young prostitutes spoke Vietnamese. As a result of the broadcast, a number of Vietnamese in the Bay Area and elsewhere began creating programs to prevent such sexual exploitation, said Benjamin Lee, chairman of San Jose-based Aid to Children Without Parents.

They set up organizations to provide opportunities and hope for those at the bottom of the economic ladder and assistance to those who escape forced prostitution.

But they face a culture that makes their task difficult; in some cases, parents willingly sell their daughters to traffickers for thousands of dollars. “In the Eastern way of thinking, the children have to obey their parents: ‘I have my body. I will do this for my family,’” said Nguyen Kim Thien, director of Ho Chi Minh City’s Little Rose Warm Shelter for sexually abused girls.

This modern-day slavery takes root in regions isolated by abject poverty and proximity to Cambodia’s thriving sex trade, such as parts of the Mekong Delta. One such place is on the outskirts of the bustling port city of Rach Gia in a majority ethnic Khmer community.

Though Vietnam boasts a literacy rate of more than 90 percent, many of the residents in this community have little or no education. They spend their days and nights picking through heaps of garbage for recyclable materials, such as plastic and metal. Children, barefoot and barely clothed, play amid the foul-smelling waste.

“This is a community in which we had to teach them how to use soap, how to use a bathroom — the basics of the basics,” said Caroline Nguyen Ticarro-Parker, co-founder and executive director of the U.S.-based Catalyst Foundation, which has set up a school in the area and is working with Habitat for Humanity to construct homes for people in the community.

“Their day-to-day life is, ‘How do I get food on the table today? Who is going to take care of my child today?’” she said. “Life has been so hard for them. They can’t think of the future.”

They live in huts with thatch roofs on or near a garbage dump swarming with flies and mosquitos. On a recent morning, 23-year-old Kim Thi Mau sorted dirty plastic bags. Last year, her 4-year-old son Lam drowned when he fell in a ditch filled with water while she and her husband worked nearby. She has two other sons, 20 months and 4 months.

“I hope there is a school that can take care of my children — some place not like this, dirty,” said Kim who, like her 28-year-old husband, is illiterate.

So it can be difficult to resist strangers who arrive in a village promising good-paying jobs. Many of these families survive on $1 or $2 a day. In the case of the seven teens, the traffickers said they could pay each one about $120 a month working in a city cafe.

On that December morning, a respected family in Rach Gia’s Vinh Quang ward sent out word about the employment offer. More than a dozen girls and their families gathered at a house.

“The man looked at our faces and said, ‘This girl is OK. This one is OK,’” said Danh Thi Anh, a shy and soft-spoken 20-year-old, who was one of those picked and 19 at the time.

The selection process began at 11 a.m. By 1 p.m. the teens were on the road. Soon after they left, a Catalyst employee who tried to dissuade the teens from going told one member of the community to call the police.

Most of the young women had never been far from home by themselves. Within a few hours, one figured out they were not heading to Ho Chi Minh City, Truong and two other teens recalled.

The girls, using a cell phone of them had, began calling home, and eventually one of their mothers called the police.

Some of the teens began to cry. They had arrived in An Bien City, south of Rach Gia, and were to travel to the coast and board a fishing boat to Cambodia.

“We were very afraid,” Truong said. “We did not know where we were.”

But police, who had tracked other human traffickers taking the same route, found them at 10 p.m. They arrested the woman who was escorting them. The man got away.

Around 4 a.m. the next day, the teens were back in Rach Gia.

It is unclear what the community learned from the narrow escape. Catalyst Foundation representatives held community meetings afterwards. “We said, ‘This is what will happen: Your child will be raped, and not by one person, but by many people,’” said the organization’s co-founder Nguyen. But she can’t be sure it won’t happen again.

For those living in brutal conditions, Nguyen said, “It is a lot of money.”

Seventeen-year-old Truong, who lives in a cramped thatched home elevated over water with nine family members, said she has not thought much about what would have happened to her had she ended up in Cambodia.

“I don’t think about that,” she said passively. “If it had happened, it would have been because it was my destiny. That’s the life.”

TO HELP

Bay Area groups working to prevent human trafficking among Vietnam”s poor:

Aid to Children Without Parents
Has provided assistance to refugee and other poor children since 1988. In recent years, the organization began focusing on preventing young people from being drawn into the sex trade. It has funded the renovation of schools and completed a community center. Created a culinary school in the Central Vietnam city of Hue to give at-risk young women skills. Has also built schools in Cambodia for poor Vietnamese communities in that country.
U.S. address: 134 Martinvale Lane, San Jose, 95119. Phone: 408-225-0405; 408-225-8302.
Vietnam address: 14 Nguyen Cong Tru, Hue.
Web site: www.acwp.org

The Asia Foundation
Sponsors discussions between Vietnam and its neighbors, Cambodia and China, on preventing human trafficking. Also works with partners to create a number of programs to provide economic opportunities for poor women, access to credit and vocational training. Works with National Legal Aid Agency to offer victims of trafficking legal services.
U.S. address: 465 California St., 9th Floor, San Francisco, 94104. Phone: 415-982-4640
Vietnam address: 10-03 Prime Centre, 53 Quang Trung St., Hanoi. Phone: 84 43 9433263.
Web site: asiafoundation.org/

Catalyst Foundation
Provides an array of educational programs, from vocational training to a primary school, to poor residents of the South Vietnam city of Rach Gia. It also works to raise awareness about the dangers of sex traffickers. The non-profit assists the poor in Dong Thap Province along the Cambodian border with scholarships and life-skills training.
U.S. address: 710 St. Olaf Ave., Ste. 100 Northfield, Minn., 55057
Phone: 507-664-9558
Vietnam address: 231/10 Bui Thi Xuan St, Ward 1, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Phone: 84 83 8476293
Web site: www.catalystfoundation.org

Pacific Links Foundation (An giang/Dong thap Alliance for the Prevention of Trafficking ADAPT)
It works in partnership with two other Bay Area-based non-profits, Oakland-based East Meets West Foundation and International Children Assistance Network in San Jose. The alliance provides an array of programs “” from scholarships to vocational training to job placement to grassroots advocacy “” along the Vietnamese-Cambodian border to prevent young women from becoming entangled in human trafficking. It operates a reintegration shelter for women who have been victims of human trafficking.
U.S. address: 534 Valley Way, Milpitas, 95035. Phone: 510-435-3035
Vietnam address: 163/A9 Huynh Thuc Khang, TP Long Xuyen, An Giang. Phone 84 76 3853888
Web site: pacificlinks.org

By John Boudreau

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Speed cameras on U.S. highways?

Friday, June 5th, 2009

You may already have seen an ominous looking radar and camera perched atop a traffic light in your neighborhood. And almost all drivers have seen a patrol car cruising a freeway looking for speeders, or a law-enforcement officer standing at the side of a road wielding a radar gun.

But most have yet to see a freeway speed camera, which are common in Europe but currently are operated in just two U.S. states.

Opponents and backers of speed cameras both suggest that eventually speed cameras will become the norm on U.S. freeways. But just how likely is a nationwide roll-out? And what factors stand in the way? We take a look.

Sponsoring legislation in Maryland

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law on May 19 Senate Bill 277, allowing the use of speed cameras in highway work zones and within a half-mile radius of schools, which means that they can be placed on freeways under these conditions.

Maryland is only the second state behind Arizona to codify the use of freeway speed cameras into law. Hawaii piloted a program but dropped it, and similar programs near San Jose, California, and in southern Florida were dismantled after they were found to be operating outside of state law. Maryland’s law takes effect on October 1.

“Maryland is in a unique position,” said Sean Adamec, the governor’s spokesman said.

“A pilot program in Montgomery shows it worked; it lowered incidences of fatalities, crashing and speeding and made neighborhoods safer. It’s safer for kids, road workers and it’s been shown to work based on evidence. The point of them isn’t to raise money but to catch speeders and that in turn makes neighborhoods safer. AOL Autos: Learn how Police catch you speeding

“We wouldn’t propose any tax on motorists traveling at safe speeds. If it was revenue rising we would’ve done it years ago, [but cameras] slow people down so they don’t need to levy so many fines. Of course there is a financial impact to make roads safer with less fatalities, but in the end you can’t put a price on the life of a child,” said Adamec.

Fighting legislation in Arizona

Sam Crump, an Arizona assemblyman who is opposed to the speed cameras and has backed legislation to have them removed from the state’s freeways in 2010, says the main backing for speed cameras within Arizona has come from “senior citizens groups,” but there has been a surprising agreement between his core conservative followers and college students over privacy concerns.

“It’s been the subject of some debate since we introduced it and some legislators have been surprised by the controversy,” Crump said. “We expect it to come up for a vote in the next couple weeks. If it fails, we’ll say more power to the people. But every time [a freeway speed-camera initiative] has been up for a vote in any place it has failed.”

Arizona’s former governor, Janet Napolitano, predicted Arizona’s freeway camera system would generate $90 million in profit for the state in 2009, and $34 million for the private company that runs it. Crump, however says the system’s total profit has been in the range of “$20 to $25 million a year,” which leads him to suggest that speed camera detractors who say it’s only a device to make money could be wrong.

“I caution people that it really is technology in the hands of Big Brother,” Crump said. “We’ve got 70 or so [freeway speed cameras] right now, and they’re looking at [a total of] 200.”

Safety at issue

Russ Rader, at the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, says that, outside of freeways, speed cameras are used in 48 communities nationwide, including in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and Washington DC. The group’s research shows that photo enforcement “works to slow drivers down. Cameras do what police officers can’t — enforce speed limit laws 24/7. Speeding is a major safety problem on our roads. It contributes to one-third of all crash deaths.” AOL Autos: Caught at 100 mph: Now what?

The IIHS found that speed cameras “can substantially reduce speeding on a wide range of roadway types. Six months after implementation of speed cameras on residential streets and school zones in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 2007, the proportion of drivers exceeding speed limits by more than 10 mph declined by about 70 percent. Implementation of a 9-month pilot program using fixed speed cameras on a busy urban freeway in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2006 was associated with up to a 95 percent decrease in the odds that drivers would travel more than 10 mph above the posted 65 mph speed limit.”

“The main argument opponents use against camera enforcement is that it can be a cash cow for local governments,” Rader said.

“If you don’t like the idea of sending revenue to your local government, don’t break the law. It’s hardly unreasonable to expect drivers to stay within 10 mph of the speed limit. I have an elementary school in my neighborhood, which is bisected by a major commuter road where drivers regularly speed like banshees. I want those drivers ticketed. Period. There aren’t enough police officers to do that everywhere.”

Nationwide rollout?

Newspaper.com’s Richard Diamond, an opponent of speed cameras, says it’s hard at times to weigh which “side” — opponents of the cameras, or their detractors — is “winning.”

“There are places where cameras are advancing, and places where they’re retreating,” said Diamond. “For politicians, the desire is on increase, but whether they can get away with it, that level has gone down.”

He says lawmakers in Wisconsin, Ohio, Montana and Mississippi failed to get a freeway speed camera measure onto a ballot, but points to Maryland as an example of lawmakers’ success. He says 13 states have specific laws banning freeway cameras, but he sees a natural progression from states using red-light cameras to using freeway speed cameras.

“The biggest issue opponents have is it creates a legal system where you’re presumed guilty without a trial,” Diamond said. “If a database says you’re a criminal, you are. Once you let in the cameras it opens the door that this is OK.”

He says protesting freeway speed cameras can be an arduous task.

“Somebody willing to go to the effort for 30 days and grab 20,000 signatures takes dedication.”

Grassroots activism

Todd Kandaris, at Camerafraud.com says his Arizona-based group’s campaign against freeway cameras started late in 2008 and his group’s member numbers have swelled from 100 to about 1500. He says the group works to bring attention to the issue through protests and publicity stunts.

“Early on we concentrated on raising awareness and getting attention, [with] groups of people getting out there and protesting,” said Kandaris. “We find that highway overpasses work well. Thousands [of motorists] go by in a given hour, and [it gets] lots of media attention. We demo’d in front of the manufacturer’s headquarters. Earlier this year we introduced a citizen’s initiative with the secretary of state, attempting to put the issue on the ballot, to let citizens vote on it in 2010.”

He says the group must collect more than 150,000 signatures by July 2010 to place the issue on the statewide ballot, and is working with groups in Virginia, Louisiana, D.C., Texas and Ohio. “Cameras have never withstood a vote of the public, which tells you this is a device used by politicians and corporations to make money. It’s not like we’re a bunch of evil speeding people, we want traffic control as much as everyone else. We just think this is just a device to bilk money out of the public.”

Legal standpoint

Sherman Ellison, a California lawyer who fights regular speeding and traffic tickets, says that a key legal issue is the data-gathering system by which driver information is collected by companies and then distributed to law-enforcement agencies, who then issue the citation to the car’s driver, or owner (which varies by state). AOL Autos: Learn what cops are thinking when they pull you over

“If you were driving down the street and ran a red light and an officer pulled you over he’d write a ticket for failing to stop,” Ellison said. “He would have visually observed [the offense] and you’d either plead or go to trial, where you’d be able to ask him for proof of that. In the photo context there is no officer, it’s just a camera connected to a laptop, and that system sends that information to a company, whether that’s Redflex or another, that sends data digitally to the contractor. AOL Autos: What to do when you get pulled over

“The difficulty in this process is they will crop or enhance these photos or whatever they feel they have to do, for the determination of whether they broke the law. I demand that they prove this is a true and correct photograph and rarely they’ll go through that process.”

Redflex responds

Cristine Weeks, a spokeswoman for Redflex, an Australian company headquartered near Phoenix that works in tandem with seven other vendors enforcing speed limits nationwide and operates Arizona’s freeway speed-camera system, says several studies — including those of the IIHS, Arizona State University and the Arizona Department of Transportation — have demonstrated camera “efficacy and accident reductions.”

She says the Redflex infrastructure was set up without any additional taxpayer funds and that the company contracts with various state and city departments in the same way as a waste-management company would. The company reported $88.2 million in revenue for its global operations in 2008 — and an annual increase of 43 percent in U.S. traffic revenues from $44.3 million to $63.3 million — and an operating profit of $10.6 million.

She says the company’s data-gathering process involves analyzing digital still images as well as streaming video, and that the company performs a quality check of any images before sending them to law-enforcement officers, who review all of the evidence before authorizing any citation.

“Nothing is changed on the image. They are not ‘Photoshopped,’” Weeks said. “It is impossible to ’shop in a light system. In the early days it was a question many wanted to know. [But] the agencies are walked through to see how the process works, and a violator can view their own video.”

She says radars similar to mobile-police devices measure a motorist’s time over distance and any breach of the speed limit results in a camera image of the front of the car –including the driver, and the car’s rear license plate. She says although Arizona freeway drivers are not levied points on their license for any breach of the law, that as drivers are forced to pay more fines, they become “more aware” of their driving patterns, and modify their driving accordingly. AOL Auto: 10 ways to avoid a speeding ticket

When asked if she thinks a nationwide system of freeway speed cameras is likely, Weeks offers a cryptic response: “I think, you know, take a look at western Europe, which is 10 to 15 years ahead of U.S. applications.”

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