The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is planning to create a proposal asking to keep data on the speed of drivers traveling under the Massachusetts Turnpike’s new all-electronic toll gantries for 30 days, The Boston Globe reports. MassDOT has said in the past it needs the speed data to synchronize the tolling system’s cameras, and for research purposes, but is declining to say why it needs the data for 30 days. Privacy advocates are concerned the data will be used to punish speeding drivers, and could also be turned over for law enforcement investigations. MassDOT should say "why it is collecting personally identifiable speed data in the first place, and how it arrived at a 30-day retention period for those records,” said American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts’ Kade Crockford. “It’s not clear what business purpose the collection and retention of these data serves.”
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