re: State Spies on Drivers Through Cell Phones: Calculates and Records Speed
Sounds bad, but I don't think malevolance is the answer so much as profoundly poor judgment in choosing a technology which inherently provides personally-identifiable information. I believe that they really only wanted data on traffic conditions and didn't think it through, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to predict the outrage that would result from their "solution". They've richly earned all the slapping-around they're going to experience.