Your car, tracked: The rapid rise of license plate readers. arstechnica.com

They already are.

food and meds) store.

Sometimes I go to the Lowe's (going there this week) store accross the highway from the Walmart store,

and the Goodwill store, and check out a couple of pawn shops. They can track me to their heart's content.

they don't need the car...

bob

food and meds) store. Sometimes I go to the Lowe's (going there this week) store accross the highway from the Walmart store, and the Goodwill store, and check out a couple of pawn shops. They can track me to their heart's content.

Except that data can be spun. Even as boring as your trips are there would be a way to use them against you.

Say a prosecutor needs a suspect for a crime to advance his career. Your data just happens to work for that. Guess what happens to you. The people who will have this data are not moral and have no trouble ruining another person's life to get ahead.

Petitio principii.

Your stupid is stuck in Turbo today. -----

- gpsman

Those that know me could and likely would have sworn that I was the verbatim author of the above post. Despite the fact that I have never been arrested nor charged with a crime, unlike some others, I'm hardly oblivious to my surroundings.

Then it must be that you are simply oblivious to everything else... in your syntactically correck drivelous manner -- altho the second sentence above was structured ambiguously.... But no matter, little meaning was present to begin with.

Yesterday I went to the Goodwill store, (to see what kind of junk I don't n eed) from Goodwill to the Walmart store, (food) from Walmart to a discount tobac co store, (I roll my own cigs) from the tobacco store to the post office to snail mail/renew my snail mail subscriptions to Popular Science and Popula r Mechanics and PC World and Laptop magazines.From the post office to the J asco gas station for two gallons of lawn mower gas. That's in case Big Sis/ Big Brother wants to know.

In its desire to run our lives government would love to know you went to a tobacco store and thus can increase your mandatory health insurance premiums. It also knows you aren't being a good consumer by shopping second hand. This to a government functionary means you are using older and possibly recalled products that could be unsafe. Your premiums will be adjusted upwards for this too.

And then there's WalMart. Being in that demographic should add a couple of points to your record right there.

You are on the short suspect list for a couple of arson cases now. Happy?