Janet Mills is a communist cunt
Janet Mills paid to track where you drive, ride & walk – now her climate group can get the data
by Maine Examiner 12/13/2019 | 6:04 0 Posted in Blaine House, Maine News, News, State House
Photo of Gov. Janet Mills before her UN Climate Council speech.
AUGUSTA – The latest chapter in Governor Janet Mills’ crusade to impact global climate change via the tiny population and economy of the state of Maine began on your cell phone in April of 2019 and you probably didn’t even know it.
Presentation slides and screen recordings from a recent meeting of the Transportation Working Group of Governor Janet Mills’ Maine “Climate Council” show that the Mills administration has been tracking where you drive, walk, or ride a bike and the data will be eagerly provided to the individuals working in Mills’ climate change group at the urging of Maine DOT.
During Janet Mills’ campaign for Governor in 2018, a video was released and widely distributed showing Mills discussing what opponents labeled a “track and tax” approach to raising revenue from Maine drivers. As the idea went, the miles a Mainer drove would be logged in a tracking system, and Mainers would eventually pay a tax for the number of miles they drove on Maine roads.
This spring, the tracking component of a potential “track and tax” plan went into place, with the Mills administration quietly hiring a firm to track the movements of Maine’s drivers.
Records from a November meeting of a working group of Mills’ Maine Climate Council show Kara Aguilar, an Assistant Engineer from Maine DOT, telling members of the Climate Council that Maine DOT can tell them where vehicles begin their trips and their eventual destinations, how fast they drove, how long trips took and even provide data on their turning movements.
The data, according to Aguilar, can also infer the purpose of the trip. Speaking during a slide presentation that listed the capabilities and limitations of the state’s system, Aguilar said she had not listed “all of the capabilities” of the system.
Instead, Aguilar indicated that she chose to list the capabilities currently being used by Maine DOT. Aguilar also said that the system can access demographic data on drivers.
“There is data available from the Department of Transportation and beyond at this group’s beck and call whenever you want it,”Kane told the group.
According to online documentation provided by the vendor that Maine has hired to do driver tracking and other information, the state can track drivers through apps and other methods. Among those methods are apps on smart phones that allow access to GPS data, which many drivers have not been aware they were providing, and standalone vehicle GPS units.
StreetLight Data, the San Francisco based firm hired by Maine DOT, goes further than most other companies in that they match their GPS data to additional data to provide additional layers of insight into the data they collect.
According to StreetLight’s own website, “StreetLight InSight® metrics include inferred income, race, education, and family status at the neighborhood level to enrich your perspective on travel patterns.” The firm says it anonymizes data to protect the privacy of individuals but some privacy watchdogs and civil liberties groups are critical of the practice, saying they doubt the data can truly be kept anonymous.
That could well be the case in Maine where some neighborhoods or regions contain a limited number of residences and don’t provide the kind of raw numbers that could cloak drivers in anonymity even if the firm tried.
fucking evil troll cunt