Vehicle Trackers and Human Rights

[richardland]

I noticed in another question that someone was worried that their boss was going to install a tracking device in their company vehicle and was there an easy way of finding them. The overiding answer seemed to be don't worry unless you've got something to hide. This did not seem to answer, what seems to me to be, the most important question of all - Does the installation of a tracker into a vehicle, without the trackee's consent, infringe the trackee's human rights or civil liberties? Anyone know?

[Rock'n'Roll]

I guess the owner/boss has every right to know where his vehicle is and who's driving it.Also If the person driving it is driving on an unauthorised route or at unorthaurised times the the insurance may be void

[kempie]

Soon there will not be a stretch of UK road where you will not be tracked using Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras.

[james_m246]

Trackers don't let people see where you are at all times anyway. The reliable tracker available to the general public is one that records the route and then you upload it to a computer to view it.

Another kind is where you text it through an online computer program which tells you the location, but these are expensive to use regularly and aren't reliable.

Ones where you see it in realtime motion much like satnav are not available to the public.

[JudgeJ]

As far as Human Rights legislation goes, it only applies to state controlled bodies, not to private companies. Its original intention (which largely seems to have been lost amongst the inane nonsense that is spouted about it today) was to prevent the oppression of individuals by an over-zealous state.

Fortunately this is one aspect of the ridiculous ways we see the legislation interpreted, which has managed to remain intact. Therefore, employees of private companies cannot cite �Human Rights� in their disagreements with their employers.

As for this particular issue, why should an employer not be entitled to know where an employee is either during the hours he is being paid, or whilst he is in a vehicle owned by the employer?

[richardland]

Thanks everyone for your answers. In answer to your question JudgeJ about why shouldn't an employer have a right to know where his vehicle is at all times. It seems to me that that would depend upon the conditions granted to the employee for using the vehicle in their own time. If for instance the employee was granted unconditional private use then perhaps there is an arguement that unless a 'kill switch' is provided then tracking this 'private' time may be considered an infringement of one right or another. But then again I'm no expert :-)