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Re:List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013) by larrydag on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:13AM (#9731239)
As an aside tracking cars is being done now for collections and repossession industry. Right now its done by scanning parking lots or places of high density and comparing to databases of records.
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Re:List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013) by phkahler on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @10:31AM (#9731962)
>> As an aside tracking cars is being done now for collections and repossession industry. Right now its done by scanning parking lots or places of high density and comparing to databases of records.

The DMV records are not supposed to be available to anyone but the police. The ability to abuse that for crime is huge.

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Re:List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013) by jMyles on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @06:45PM (#9735768)
> not supposed to be available to anyone but the police... to abuse that for crime is huge

So it sounds like an illogical configuration on its face then.

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