Re: Wondering

["Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb () slac stanford edu>]

...
> Am trying to figure out the logistics.
...
> In addition since when can a civilian company do something without a
warant ?
...

I believe that the claim of OnStar is that the the owner
of the vehicle has to initiate the request to enable the
SVS feature (passphrase/code?), and only then will the
operator direct Law Enforcement to the vehicle via the
GPS location, and only when Law Enforcement has the
vehicle on sight will they initiate the disablement.

So, OnStar was performing an act on behalf/request of
their customer (the owner of the stolen vehicle).
Sounds like a basic civil contract to me (although I
have never had OnStar, nor read their contracts with
their customers).

Whether OnStar would disable vehicles on the request
of LE without the owner's request, and what authorization
they would require, is left as a different exercise. 

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