Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood

Re:Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood by awjr on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:46AM (#15070893)

Found them http://www.flocksafety.com/

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Re:Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood by executesorder66 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:13AM (#15071008)

Also discussed in this thread.[0] It's one of the startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 round.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15070694

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Re:Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood by xkcd-sucks on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:20AM (#15072060)

Can you monetize license plate reads?

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Re:Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood by mrmondo on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:40AM (#15072825)

Yes especially when and how long people are parked for, couple that with face and/or financial tracking and you can target marketing to people or locations.

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Re:Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood by tankenmate on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:53AM (#15072963)

Or selling data to repo people / skip tracers. In fact a few of the larger companies that already exist do that and they share data between clients' ANPR (ALPR) devices on their repo / skip tracer work vehicles. The ACLU published a document about the privacy issues around this in 2013. [0]

[0] https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...

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Re:Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood by Gargoyle on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:55PM (#15076305)

Or private detectives stalking client's spouses. There's a lot of ugly directions for this technology.

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Re:Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood by to3m on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:10PM (#15074380)

People could bid to buy the info, and the car owner(s) could bid against them to keep the info secret?

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