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If your real name is discernible from your HN profile, and you own a car, I could likely get your license plate. If you live in a big city, I could search your
by seebetter 6y ago
If your real name is discernible from your HN profile, and you own a car, I could likely get your license plate. If you live in a big city, I could search your license plate and find locations where you were. Alternatively, I could find your address, then search for license plates that drove near your house. It's not a perfect system but it has millions of records. And there must be other correlated databases that I don't know about.
The only things we can do is use fake/different numbers at stores, use prepaid or business debit cards and have burner iPhones and rooted Androids. Register your license plate in corporations names, and don't put your utilities in your real name. If we just decorrelate the data, and falsify it, then we could have a chance.
- jjeaff 6y agoWhere would you search license plate data without being law enforcement?
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- coolspot 6y agoPrivate license plate collectors with paid access for private investigators.
- sunsetMurk 6y agoany links to providers of that service/data?
- tantalor 6y ago20 seconds of Googling: https://www.intelhawkpi.com/category/asset-search https://www.intelhawkpi.com/category/asset-search http://www.uslicenseplatesearch.com/ http://www.uslicenseplatesearch.com/ https://spycenter.com/product/license-plate-lookup/ https://spycenter.com/product/license-plate-lookup/ https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html
- lsiebert 6y agoProbably easier to become a bail bonds person instead of a PI, in states that still have cash bail.
- Lammy 6y ago- Buy cheap dashcam with GPS - Drive around city - Feed video into OpenALPR: https://www.openalpr.com/ https://www.openalpr.com/ - ??? - Surveil
- stevenicr 6y agoI was under the impression that multiple "towing and recovery" companies drive around all the strip malls every day with lprs and give each other access to the data in order to help each other find cars to steal back for the lien holders.. In some cases the malls themselves allowed stationary cams to be setup at the entrances and used for these purposes - I think an article (in wired?) about a year ago shed light on one in california that maybe changed the cam feed relationship after pointing to a 'terms were posted' defense. I try to remind people I see that are okay with this tech being deployed at the airport and other places - that the state spending a bunch of money 'to keep an eye out for stolen cars' is just an excuse to grab data that can later be looked at - and is sometimes given to repo men so they can take cars from people who are late on payments.
- seebetter 6y agoThe only one I know is- https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html
- m463 6y agoYou can put bluetooth beacons throughout a store. If you have a loyalty app on ios, it will inform of your precise location. On Android I suspect it is much worse and you might not need anything. Google probably collects each contact. I don't know what gets passed on, but some edison beacons have URLs. When you go to the registers there will be beacons there and it can correlate it all to the identity of the purchaser. If you have wifi on and I believe if you have connected to a private ssid, your phone will broadcast requests for it. You can passively listen to phones and look these up in online ssid to location databases. You can turn off bluetooth and wifi (although apple has dark patterns wrt to this and android? maybe you can turn them off?) I'm uncertain about NFC.
- boring_twenties 6y agoI've been able to disable NFC on all phones I've ever owned (all Android).
- bo1024 6y agoDon't forget cash.