Snippet: Bucholz, who designed some of the first mobile license plate reading, or LPR, equipment, gave a presentation at the 2006 National Institute of Justice conference here last week laying out a vision of the future in which LPR does everything from helping insurance companies find missing cars to letting retail chains chart customer migrations. It could also let a nosy citizen with enough cash find out if the mayor is having an affair, he says...
Giant data-tracking firms such as ChoicePoint, Accurint and Acxiom already collect detailed personal and financial information on millions of Americans. Once they discover how lucrative it is to know where a person goes between the supermarket, for example, and the strip club, the LPR industry could explode, says Bucholz.
Private detectives would want the information. So would repo men or bail bondsmen. And the government, which often contracts out personal data collection -- in part, so it doesn't have to deal with Freedom of Information Act requests -- might encourage it.
chrisducati says:
04:30 AM, 07/26/06
You have to be kidding me. Ok , Im taking steps to rid myself of trackable data. Big brother my a**
ateixeira says:
01:54 PM, 07/27/06
I find this practice annoying. You go to the pharmacy to buy gum and they want your phone number. It's 1-900-BUZZ-OFF!