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cameras, and of course facial recognition database searches. There is a TV show on CBS called Per- son of Interest which is about how the government has developed computers and software to watch every person from any camera on-line such as traffi c or ATM cameras. The government then matches all calls and locations detected by cell tow- ers or cameras with facial recognition to determine where everyone is at all times, and by monitoring all the calls they deter- mine what the people are saying and who they are in contact with. The goal was to protect people from crime, a great one to start with, but in the program politics has changed the direction of the original goal. Sound familiar to what you read in the news and hear on TV? The law as we now know it has a test for determining what should be considered private. That test is 'what would a reason- able person expect to be private'. A simple example would be if you were talking on your phone and shut the door to your room so your conversation would be private. You would expect that conversation to be between you and the party you were speaking to, not you and your party and the Government. But we are fi nding out the government has been monitoring our calls, video chats and e-mails, searching our photos we put on-line and of course the massive state databases of mug shots, driver's license photos, fi ngerprints, bank reporting and real estate sales. Toss in your Income Tax returns, what you view on the internet, your credit card statements, and even your library card and you can pretty much tell what a person is doing. Anything on the internet is searchable. Do you think you are going to fool law enforcement by erasing your browser his- tory or your phone's recent call log when the offi cer asks you if you were on your cell phone while driving? Not so if they have access and can pull up your phone records on the side of the road. Now, if they have that type of access to your phone record then they would just send you a citation by mail for using your phone while driving because they already have access to your logs. No need to catch you when they can just pull the records to prove you were do- ing it. The question before our nation today is simple: What privacy are you willing to give up in order to reduce the threat of ter- rorism on our soil? Put your response on Facebook.com/interstatetrucker or Face- book.com/driverslegalplan. Be advised that anything you put there is not private. ◆ Jim C. Klepper is President of Interstate Trucker Ltd., a law fi rm entirely dedicated to legal defense of the nation's commer- cial drivers. Interstate Trucker represents truck drivers throughout the forty-eight (48) states on both moving and non-moving violations. Jim is also president of Drivers Legal Plan, which allows member driv- ers access to his fi rm's services at greatly discounted rates. Jim, a former prosecu- tor, is also a registered pharmacist, with considerable experience in alcohol and drug related cases. He is a lawyer that has focused on transportation law and the trucking industry in particular. He works to answer your legal questions about trucking and life over-the-road and has his Com- mercial Drivers License. 800-333-DRIVE (3748) or www.intersta- tetrucker.com and www.driverslegalplan. com Trucking Law 28 www.studentdriverplacement.com May '14 trucking law 0514.indd 3 4/21/14 9:35 AM