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If you live in the US or UK, your movements are already being tracked by license plate reading cameras.
by Lorento 11y ago
If you live in the US or UK, your movements are already being tracked by license plate reading cameras.
- pdkl95 11y agoWhile this is true, it only works where cameras are present, and adding a significant number of cameras costs time and money. COTRAVELER[1] is much easier and costs almost nothing. Just having a cellphone in a car (either in the driver's pocket or "OnStar") - which only needs to be on and giving presence notifications to the local tower - is enough to get very accurate near-realtime tracking information. The only costs are read-only access to the tower logs and a few SQL JOINs. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/world/how-the-nsa-is-tracking-people-right-now/634/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/world/how-the-nsa...