Woman Jailed in Singapore After Police Extract Data From Her Car Infotainment
In the first conviction of its kind, a woman in Singapore was jailed for 5 days and her driving license suspended for 2 years after police in Singapore managed to extract GPS data from her car infotainment system.
The data kept in the system was extracted and used to nab the woman for a speeding offence, the offence happened two years ago, in 2022.
The technology that enabled this vehicle forensics was revealed recently and the plan is to rollout the feature fully in 2024.
The police added they are developing their capability to extract data from a vehicle’s On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) port.
A proof-of-concept of this was shown at the seminar, demonstrating how telemetry data could be extracted via the port to pinpoint a car’s location, braking and acceleration patterns.
The extracted data can then be used to reconstruct a video rendering of the scene to aid investigators.
A police spokesman said the vehicle forensics capabilities will also apply to other vehicles.
These include motorcycles, as long as the vehicle system can be read or analysed or is compatible with the system the police will be using.
Call us alarmists but this level of surveillance sure does sound Orwellian. Though the police have given assurances that the technology will only be used for criminal investigations, we know that no good deed goes unpunished.
If there is a way to abuse technology, it will be done and you probably won’t know about it.
Nevertheless, serial
