<top post> They don't need a visual scanner.
http://www.spychips.com/ Hmm. that can of coke laying on the side of the road, looks like SJS bought it from Vons and deposited it there. Ticket's in the mail. Consumer cards?? We know your buying habits, wonder what that data is worth to oh, say your HMO. Mr Smith, we see that you drink quite a bit of beer and eat twinkies all the time, so we've decided to drop/raise your health care coverage. They're already selling your spending habits. http://www.nocards.org/ Orwell seems to have been a few years off. </top post> :) Robert Donovan wrote: > 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
