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Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

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Re: Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

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The flock discourse is slowly climbing the ladder to real discussion. We're at the "mostly intelligent people who are casually interested in the topic being confidently wrong about it" phase (and I know I'm going to get very angry replies accusing me of being one, hah caught you thinking about it!) > log every trip > This system tracks the whole of everyone's movements, every day Funny, because current lawsuits over…

I agree with every point

Re: Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good luck with that. It’s bad advice. But people will have to read the law and take risks as seems appropriate to them.

So you called my advice bad. Then ignored my questions before retreating. You stated something as thought it were fact earlier (ownership) and then didn’t back it up. How can you own something that is owned by another company? Or said another way, do you have any sound basis to say you are on the hook to register property in New York (you linked to a New York statue) that you do not own. Or is it the LLC’s responsibi…

“ A person, firm, association or corporation having a place of business in a foreign country, state, territory or federal district and owning a motor vehicle, motorcycle or trailer used in connection with and garaged at such place of business which such owner is compelled to register in such foreign jurisdiction shall be deemed a resident of such foreign jurisdiction”

In other words, the car’s owner is only deemed a resident of a foreign jurisdiction if the car is garaged at a place of business in that foreign jurisdiction AND compelled to register in that jurisdiction. It does not matter where the car’s owner is located. If it’s not garaged in that foreign jurisdiction, it is considered to be an NY resident vehicle.

Your workaround does not work according to NY law because your car is not garaged in Wyoming or whatever.

Re: Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to offend, my point is that the necessity of auto insurance will stick your name (as the insured party for that vin) in a place accessible to flock (or at least flock's users). And as such I don't think it provides the results your post suggested "Montana vehicle registrations give you privacy". I really wish it did and I hoped you had some solution!

Ah. I understand now. Thank you for clarifying. And my bad too for assuming bad faith there and/or projecting onto you. I don’t want to believe it’s true that you compromise privacy by registering a vehicle under your name, particularly in regards to flock. I admit you could be right, but I want to investigate this more. Do you think it’s possible there could be car insurance agencies that offer you privacy protectio…

Broad form car insurance might accomplish what you want:

https://www.policygenius.com/auto-insurance/what-is-broad-fo...

But I believe the intersection of states with highly private registration and where broad form is available is the empty set.

> I am not convinced your insurance company would data sharing with flock or its subsidiaries if they only have your vin.

Go pull your lexis nexis report.

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