Hertz Puts Camera in Cars.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | March 23, 2015

No. 1,131

Its part of the dashboard electronic set up, pictured below, that helps you make sure you never get lost, even if you want to.

But, Hertz says it is deactivated and it doesn’t plan to use it.  Well, that’s comforting. A useless, turned off camera. OK, Big Brother, be sure to give us lots of notice when you change that plan.

Do we have an expectation of privacy in this situation?  After all, its their car, not our’s. Hertz is not the government, but the government can subpoena the tapes — if there were tapes, which of course there aren’t.

Don’t feel paranoid or anything, mind you, but you might want to put a small piece of  duct tape on the lens.  Peace of mind.  Then, just in case there’s a recorder in there too, play loud music on the radio. Then drop it off at AVIS.  It’s okay, Hertz can find it. GPS is part of the Never Lost package.

Credit: Fusion (see link).

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