Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by kuschku on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:48PM
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An example, measuring traffic flow in a city.
You can do it with cameras and ID plate detection tools, which allows tracking where anyone is at any time.
You can also put magnetic loops into the roads, which just tells you how many drive over a certain area of the road, without any individualized tracking.
Good telemetry is like the magnetic loops. But nowadays very few implementations are that privacy respecting
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by tomohawk on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:58PM
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Better surveillance: put RFID readers in the road that track the RFID tags in the tires. Then ping that against the database of who bought what tires. People won't known what hit them.
You can do it with cameras and ID plate detection tools, which allows tracking where anyone is at any time.
You can also put magnetic loops into the roads, which just tells you how many drive over a certain area of the road, without any individualized tracking.
Good telemetry is like the magnetic loops. But nowadays very few implementations are that privacy respecting