Actually, I saw a website for a marketing company that does something like that several months ago. Can't remember the site, and didn't really think about it much then because I was looking for something else.
Robert Donovan On 7/31/07, Nicholas Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
