<VV> Onstar Limits - No Corvair

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

Verizon provides their communication service, and Verizon will not allow 
monitoring willy-nilly without a court order.

Dave Morris


At 05:52 PM 6/6/2005, you wrote:
>At 11:09 hours 06/06/2005, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 6/6/2005 9:28:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>BobHelt at aol.com writes:
>>
>>BTW, we  all should be concerned about this. OnStar tracks the location of
>>your  vehicle so they know where you are and where you have been. Just wait
>>until
>>all your traveling becomes part of the FED surveillance system.  Big  Brother
>>will be watching your every move.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Bob Helt
>>
>>
>>
>>Actually, according to OnStar/GM that is not the case. No Black  Helicopters
>>
>> >From the OnStar web site:
>>
>>OnStar only obtains the location  of a vehicle when a user initiates a
>>request for service, there is an Air Bag  Deployment, Advanced Automatic 
>>Crash
>>Notification is triggered or when required  to do so by a valid court 
>>order in
>>criminal  procedures.
>
>
>
>Not very long ago, a couple of organized crime figures were busted because 
>the Feds armed with "search warrant" type paperwork used OnStar's 
>facilities to listen in on  a conversation between the two suspects and 
>obtained sufficient info to charge them.   The argument was that the 
>procedure was similar to a judge-ordered wire tap on a phone.   It was a 
>2-3 day news story about a year or so ago, even Paul Harvey had comments 
>about it.
>
>Supposedly an OnStar spokesperson was said to have commented that they 
>were against such inside-vehicle audio monitoring because "it interfered 
>with their service to their customers".
>
>No OnStar in anything I drive nor will there be.   First, I'm not likely 
>to be buying anything new anytime soon, and second, if I did buy something 
>current it wouldn't be a GM product in the first place seeing as how I 
>can't think of anything they sell that I'd want.
>
>If I lock my keys in a Vair, I can get them out by unlocking the door with 
>the dipstick.
>
>
>tony..
>
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