<VV> Onstar Limits - No Corvair

[Tony Underwood]

At 11:09 hours 06/06/2005, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
>
>In a message dated 6/6/2005 9:28:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>BobHelt at aol.com writes:
>
>BTW, we  all should be concerned about this. OnStar tracks the location of
>your  vehicle so they know where you are and where you have been. Just wait
>until
>all your traveling becomes part of the FED surveillance system.  Big  Brother
>will be watching your every move.
>
>Regards,
>Bob Helt
>
>
>
>Actually, according to OnStar/GM that is not the case. No Black  Helicopters
>
> >From the OnStar web site:
>
>OnStar only obtains the location  of a vehicle when a user initiates a
>request for service, there is an Air Bag  Deployment, Advanced Automatic 
>Crash
>Notification is triggered or when required  to do so by a valid court 
>order in
>criminal  procedures.



Not very long ago, a couple of organized crime figures were busted because 
the Feds armed with "search warrant" type paperwork used OnStar's 
facilities to listen in on  a conversation between the two suspects and 
obtained sufficient info to charge them.   The argument was that the 
procedure was similar to a judge-ordered wire tap on a phone.   It was a 
2-3 day news story about a year or so ago, even Paul Harvey had comments 
about it.

Supposedly an OnStar spokesperson was said to have commented that they were 
against such inside-vehicle audio monitoring because "it interfered with 
their service to their customers".

No OnStar in anything I drive nor will there be.   First, I'm not likely to 
be buying anything new anytime soon, and second, if I did buy something 
current it wouldn't be a GM product in the first place seeing as how I 
can't think of anything they sell that I'd want.

If I lock my keys in a Vair, I can get them out by unlocking the door with 
the dipstick.


tony..