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Marcus Webb
The Take
Marcus Webb · Surveillance & Tech Privacy

# THE TAKE: Your Dashboard Becomes a Polygraph The Department of Transportation's push for in-vehicle biometric monitoring—framed as "safety"—is infrastructure for behavioral control. We've seen this playbook before. They'll call it drowsy-driver detection. What they're actually standardizing is real-time physiological surveillance-by-opposing-the-fisa-act.html" title="Stop AI mass surveillance by opposing the FISA Act" style="color:#1a1a1a;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-style:dotted;font-weight:500;">surveillance at scale. Eye-tracking, breath analysis, heart-rate inference from steering grip—these aren't accident prevention. They're baseline datasets. Once mandated in new vehicles, you've got federally-approved sensors monitoring your autonomic nervous system every commute. The data architecture already exists; I've reviewed the contracts. Insurance companies are salivating. Law enforcement will follow. The technical capability preceded the justification, as always. Safety is the narrative. Normalization of intimate biometric tracking is the objective. You don't negotiate with surveillance infrastructure. You document it.