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For those who still like the cops angle, I'll do a bit of wild speculation. Once you sign your driving record over to your insurance company, you no longer own
by DanielBMarkham 15y ago
For those who still like the cops angle, I'll do a bit of wild speculation. Once you sign your driving record over to your insurance company, you no longer own it, do you? So they could just repackage your detailed driving record and sell it to any interested third parties through a shell company. This is close to the same model the cell phone companies are using. You end up with warrant-free observation of citizens at a very detailed level without the government directly have any kind of discussion at all about your rights.
I imagine if this trend continues we'll see "packagers", intermediary companies that assemble packages of just about everything there is to know about you and formatting it in a nice timelime -- public posts, blogs, travel records, phone call records, etc -- perhaps with an ongoing subscription service for those folks you want to keep close tabs on. It's a very interesting product idea. "Joe got up, tweeted about the football game last night, then posted this comment on HN. After driving to the gym at 10 mph over the speed limit, he called his mistress for 15 minutes...."
- JM212 15y agoYour repacking and selling of the data is hugely interesting. This would give fantastic insight in to consumer behavior, not just for the obvious marketing potential but also for companies like UBS to get market info on retailers like walmart (http://classic.cnbc.com/id/38722872/ http://classic.cnbc.com/id/38722872/). I'm surprised this isn't being done already by cell phone providers.
- DanielBMarkham 15y agoAs a startup idea, it's probably worth mocking up. There have been several meta apps like this in the past. Spockeo comes to mind (http://www.spokeo.com/ http://www.spokeo.com/) These guys are focused on data retrieval from mostly online sources. What gets interesting is mashing it all up and putting it in a narrative, tracking format. Going for a job interview tomorrow? Take some time today and read a narrative of how this guy spent his days for the last month and gain a bit of an advantage. Welcome to the 21st century.