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SFMTA publishes list of names with license plates
- dmitrygr 11y agoThat seems like an oversight....
- bigiain 11y agoSeems plausible - they accidentally created 9 PDF files, accidentally uploaded them to a new page in their CMS which they accidentally created, on which they accidentally wrote instructions on how to search through the PDF file to find your (or your ex-wife/stalkee's) name/plate. No clear signs of intent that publishing names linked to plates was exactly what they set out to do...
- jrockway 11y agoWell, it's obvious their intent was that you could find whether or not you were owed money by searching for your license plate or name. You weren't supposed to search for someone else's licence plate or name. Of course someone should have noticed that you can do that, and that it's bad for privacy, but didn't. That's the problem.
- mmanfrin 11y agoSFMTA is a truly awful organization.
- vlall 11y agothey'll for sure take this down.
- justinclift 11y agoBit late now. ;)
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- templaedhel 11y agoI wonder if anything interesting comes up if you correlate this data with the license plate camera data that Oakland released (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642139).
- bound008 11y agoThis data can't be real. It says Steve Jobs has not one, but three license plates.
- JimboOmega 11y agoWasn't he known for buying new cars all the time to get around parking fines (by milking the new car plates)?
- Kadin 11y agoIt's reported that he leased a new Mercedes every 6 months so that he didn't have to put plates on the car at all. http://gizmodo.com/5853927/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-benz-didnt-have-a-license-plate http://gizmodo.com/5853927/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-benz-d... I don't know if there was anything about parking fines involved; I doubt the guy was particularly concerned about them.
- 650REDHAIR 11y agoWow. Didn't think it could be real, but sure enough my girlfriend's old plate is listed. That's pretty disgusting, SFMTA. Edit We just went through the process to claim the $125 through "surveygizmo.com". At the end it says "A customer service representative will review your information and respond to you within 21 days. If a refund is identified a check will be processed within 30 days"
- heezo 11y agoThanks for this. I scraped all of the PDF data, and threw it in a DB. Now it's searchable. http://sfmtarefund.com http://sfmtarefund.com
- abalone 11y agoDetails on California DMV records.. surprisingly, a lot of the data is technically public record: https://www.privacyrights.org/cradle-grave-government-records-and-your-privacy https://www.privacyrights.org/cradle-grave-government-record... And here's the federal law on DMV record privacy. This would be a legal release of information, unfortunately (government agency "carrying out its functions"): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2721 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2721
- freedenizen 11y agoAppears to be illegal under DPPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_Privacy_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_Privacy_Protection_...