I've been thinking about things like this for quite some time....it would be pretty tempting to hook up a license-plate-scanner to a GPS unit in all taxis, and buildings, such as 7-11 for example, and record license plate numbers and gps coordinates of the passing cars. At the end of the day (or month) you could aggregate all the data and run statistical analysis and sell the data to big companies, who would love to know where their customers are coming from, and going to. The applications are endless, but it's also very bigbrothery and creepy.
Having cameras watching us in *our own* cars would be an entirely different level of creepy. On 7/31/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, if they're recording every license plate seen along with GPS > location and date/time, and hanging on to that to "assist in future > investigations", well, yeah, that's getting into big brother territory. > > When they mount a camera on the dash to watch you drive... that's > big brother. > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Nicholas Wheeler Systems Administrator Development InfoStructure -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
