Tue May 17, 2022 – 9:24 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Unless it goes challenged or repealed by a future federal government, a law recently signed by U.S. President Joe Biden will mandate that all new vehicles sold after 2026 have electronic “kill switches” that could in theory be used by government officials or even hackers to gain control of one’s ride without oversight.
The “kill switch” law was buried deep inside Biden’s pro-LGBT $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed late last year. The mandate would not only potentially allow for law enforcement to shut one’s car off, but also track the cars metrics, location, and even possibly passenger load.
The “kill switch” mandate was included under the pretext of supposedly curbing drunk drivers or preventing high-speed chases, which are commonplace in some U.S. states.
However, the potential privacy concerns regarding such technology, as well as mandating it through law, raised the eyebrows of former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr.
He sounded the alarm over Biden’s hidden “kill switch” rule in a Daily Caller opinion piece published in November.
Barr wrote that “kill switches” are a “privacy disaster in the making,” and the law is “disturbingly short on
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