This is happening on a massive scale in England too, repo companies buy ANPR equipment, fit it to their vans and have a database of cars they are looking for. Some of them also do work for the police and are given access to the government registration database so they can go looking for cars without road tax, this has led to abuse of the data and the companies illegally retaining it to augment their own data and then selling it on to other repo companies so that when they're looking for a car, not only do they know that make, model and finance address they also have the address of the registered keeper, the colour and a free text entry that often contains police notes.
-----Original Message----- From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 9:00 PM To: funsec@linuxbox.org Subject: [funsec] license plate scanners as deployed by the repo industry http://betaboston.com/news/2014/03/05/a-vast-hidden-surveillance-network-run s-across-america-powered-by-the-repo-industry/ I am curious who the company in Texas is that appears to be consolidating much of the data? Jerry _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4335 / Virus Database: 3722/7159 - Release Date: 03/06/14 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
