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by nostromo 2954 days ago
> The company’s goal is to capture every plate in Ohio and use that information to reveal patterns.

That's horrifying.

It reminds me of how social security numbers evolved from something narrow in purpose to something that can be used to track an individual's every detail. Now license plates are evolving into a tool that is used to build databases of every individual's movement.

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That's how the mafia used to work. Watch people during their fun times. Reveal patterns, then extort them.
Used to, eh?