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Personally, it’s all the other plate readers I care about too. I’m more a privacy nut than trying to evade police detection. I’d imagine, as with so much, cops

by hnbear 3y ago

Personally, it’s all the other plate readers I care about too. I’m more a privacy nut than trying to evade police detection. I’d imagine, as with so much, cops just outsource it to a data broker type service. They feed the camera footage to a third party API that spits back matched data. Either plate info or human info. My data doesn’t need to go into so many tracking DBs. No way so many small agencies can do anything themselves.

Reubachi 3y ago
May I ask why your plate information being out there concerns you? If it's 3rd party "plate readers" tracking your travel, your vehicle is already sending telemetry data outbound regardless, after you give the manufacturer 40 grand and you don't even get to pick which fancy picture goes on your car.
- hnbear 3y ago
  Nothing especially rational, although generally I like to minimize what I can. If I can easily reduce one form of data leak I will. Your point is correct. There are many sources that we each hemorrhage data from, and it’s likely a lost battle. Thinking a little more there are aspects of choice and consent here. I know I bought a car with telemetry, a cell modem in it, and a gps receiver, so it can be tracked. I’m not willingly opting into continuous surveillance by various third parties. It happens and driving is worth more to me then my loss of data tantrum, so I have a car and drive. It’s not all rational. That said, I also have an older car with no electronic monitoring and love it too.
- toast0 3y ago
  > your vehicle is already sending telemetry data outbound regardless, Not anymore, thanks to the 3G cutoff :P
cratermoon 3y ago
All the responses seemed to go straight to scanners and such, but I'm just thinking about the cops using their eyes. A fake-looking plate would attract a cop's attention, but with so many real variants, how is a cop going to recognize a fake out of all the possible legal looks?

by hnbear 3y ago

Reubachi 3y ago

May I ask why your plate information being out there concerns you? If it's 3rd party "plate readers" tracking your travel, your vehicle is already sending telemetry data outbound regardless, after you give the manufacturer 40 grand and you don't even get to pick which fancy picture goes on your car.

hnbear 3y ago
Nothing especially rational, although generally I like to minimize what I can. If I can easily reduce one form of data leak I will. Your point is correct. There are many sources that we each hemorrhage data from, and it’s likely a lost battle. Thinking a little more there are aspects of choice and consent here. I know I bought a car with telemetry, a cell modem in it, and a gps receiver, so it can be tracked. I’m not willingly opting into continuous surveillance by various third parties. It happens and driving is worth more to me then my loss of data tantrum, so I have a car and drive. It’s not all rational. That said, I also have an older car with no electronic monitoring and love it too.
toast0 3y ago
> your vehicle is already sending telemetry data outbound regardless, Not anymore, thanks to the 3G cutoff :P

cratermoon 3y ago

All the responses seemed to go straight to scanners and such, but I'm just thinking about the cops using their eyes. A fake-looking plate would attract a cop's attention, but with so many real variants, how is a cop going to recognize a fake out of all the possible legal looks?