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There are companies that scan every parked car visible in any public accessible spot.
by throwawaytea 7mo ago
There are companies that scan every parked car visible in any public accessible spot.
- mmmlinux 7mo agoThe real question is why do they only sell information to services designed to cause harm.
- idle_zealot 7mo agoWho else would buy it? What use exists for this data that isn't harmful to society?
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- kube-system 7mo agoFinding missing people? Finding criminals?
- razingeden 7mo ago“Find me the missing person, and I’ll find the crime.” — Lavrentiy Beria (Probably)
- throwawaytea 7mo agoPeople not returning vehicles to the banks, or commiting fraud by taking up resources in districts they don't live in are technically criminals.
- kube-system 7mo agoThere are, in fact, many crimes
- throwaway27448 7mo agoDiscouraging people from using cars at all?
- bregma 7mo agoCatching the pedophiles. Think of the children.
- goatlover 7mo agoAs long as theyrw not in the Epstein Class.
- mindslight 7mo agoMore like catching the children. Think of the pedophiles.
- browsingonly 7mo agoRepossessing cars isn't societally harmful, quite the opposite in fact.
- JuniperMesos 7mo agoIf it was not possible or even just much harder to repossess a car, lenders would be much less willing to grant loans to people in order to buy a car.
- ProllyInfamous 7mo agoPrivate Investigators; vindictive ex-lovers; spiteful law enforcement; personal vendettae; abortion tracking... ...some combination of all of the above?!
- throwawaytea 7mo agoReturning a vehicle to a bank that someone has stopped paying for isn't exactly harm. If banks were unable to get vehicles back, people with bad credit would have a much harder time getting a vehicle in the first place.
- ProllyInfamous 7mo ago>much harder time getting a vehicle in the first place. This is a good thing; add "houses" to the list, too. Credit is too freely issued — we live on debt (as a society/world). I've seen people throw their $20k in negative equity into a new purchase/lease — and just been baffled. --but I agree: lenders oughta'be able to retrieve their lien'ed properties.
- quickthrowman 7mo agoRepossessing collateral on a secured loan is not a service designed to cause harm.
- mmmlinux 7mo agoThere are A LOT of throwaways talking about repossessing cars in this comment. that's a little weird. Guess I struck a nerve at some company.
- ProllyInfamous 7mo agoe.g. at BigBox Mart towtrucks will traverse the parking lanes, with ALPR cameras quickly detecting repos to snatch. My car is paid for but I just don't display a license plate period (in my US state it's only a $10 fine to not).
- xxpor 7mo ago>My car is paid for but I just don't display a license plate period Which of course draws a bunch attention to you regardless.
- ProllyInfamous 7mo agoIt's not about hiding — it's about sending a message. IIRC, Steve Jobs was known to do this in his black plateless Mercedes (decades ago).
- jauntywundrkind 7mo agoWired even wrote this up (2010). Getting a new lease every 6 months, which apparently legally let him go plateless somehow. https://www.wired.com/2010/08/the-mystery-of-steve-jobs-plateless-benz/ https://www.wired.com/2010/08/the-mystery-of-steve-jobs-plat... I found it pretty grossly offensive a practice.
- ProllyInfamous 7mo agoI lived nearish to him during this era, and after this article was published, it seemed like every black Mercedes in town started going tagless.
- tbyehl 7mo agoIt really doesn't, there are lawful reasons to not have a plate yet.
- ProllyInfamous 7mo ago
- kotaKat 7mo agoFun fact: Motorola Solutions sells LPRs not only to law enforcement (via Vigilant Solutions), they also sell them via the "Digital Recognition Network" arm to third party companies - tow operators, private operations, and so on. Some of the largest customers of DRN are banks, especially sub-prime lenders :) https://drndata.com/about/ https://drndata.com/about/ https://drndata.com/news/motorola-solutions-acquires-vaas-international-holdings-leader-in-data-and-image-analytics-for-vehicle-location/ https://drndata.com/news/motorola-solutions-acquires-vaas-in... And all of them... feed right into the greater LEARN (Law Enforcement Archival Reporting Network) system that the feds and company have access to at all times.
- Zigurd 7mo agoThis isn't the Motorola that makes phones. Lenovo owns Motorola Mobility. But America kept the highly profitable business of building a surveillance state. Yay.