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The gist of it: I can subscribe to location updates for any license plate that I want, without knowledge or consent from the owner of that car.
But this way you don't have to pay for the cameras - someone else has done it for you.
It could be easily fixed by having to get a physical OTP from an automated kiosk in the car park to add the license plate to the app.
super easy and user friendly. Easy to rollout, to keep a working supply-chain for the physical OTP...
To protect privacy, I would support an understandable degradation of usability.
The gist of it: I can subscribe to location updates for any license plate that I want, without knowledge or consent from the owner of that car.
Something you could do anyway with a network of $50 android phones mounted on bridges over freeways. But this way you don't have to pay for the cameras - someone else has done it for you.
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Something you could do anyway with a network of $50 android phones mounted on bridges over freeways. But this way you don't have to pay for the cameras - someone else has done it for you.
You'd need to place those, maintain them, prevent vandalism, route power to them, pay for network connectivity and weather-proof them. The price of the cameras is not the problem.
Only if you want to pass the toll / "télépéage" without having to stop for paying "manually" (using a credit card of whatever).
I've got one and now you can pass most tolls without stopping (but you need to slow down to about 30 km/h // 20 mph).
At this point I’m carrying so many electronic devices with me or at home that I’ve give up on going out of my way to prevent getting tracked. My best effort is to trust Apple doesn’t sell me out.
As much as I hate the guy, Kissinger made a great point in an interview with Eric Schmidt paraphrased:
'We have lived a fairly peaceful period in the last century with a stable world order, we should not assume that this is guaranteed to continue forever.'
We usually don't like to think in centuries or decades. But a democratic state today can become autocratic 50 years from now.
Equally, today caring about my privacy is just adding a lot of friction to me daily live. 50 years from now, I have no guarantee that myself or someone in my family becomes 'a person of interest' for my government.
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You'd need to place those, maintain them, prevent vandalism, route power to them, pay for network connectivity and weather-proof them. The price of the cameras is not the problem.
I will place and maintain road cameras for $50/yr, including data connectivity for plates. Minimum 1,000 cameras. 75% uptime/scan rate guarantee.
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I will place and maintain road cameras for $50/yr, including data connectivity for plates. Minimum 1,000 cameras. 75% uptime/scan rate guarantee.
You'd likely lose a lot of money trying to do that, you're vastly underestimating the cost of maintaining the data network for that kind of installation alone, even before looking at the cost of physical installation.