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Originally Posted by RayVega
This is 100% true. I was recently talking to a highway cop in long Island NY. Some cars are fitted with auto license plate readers, that automatically read all the license plates around them searching for expired plates or wanted individuals.
This is not a problem with me, I understand it and it makes sense. BUT did you know they database every single hit with a GPS location and keep it saved indefinitely? The cop I was talking too could enter my plate into the system and show me a map of every place I passed a police car with a time stamp for the past four years. Quickly a pattern between my home and office and paths to several friends houses showed up. They can go in and see patterns of where you go and when, AND there is no warrant necessary like there is with cell phone pings, because they own the data.
i'm just saying privacy is a thing of the past.
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When you take a picture with your smartphone, its location is stamped into he meta data of the picture. This is not new.
The cops do not know where you are at any given time, but your cellphone provider does, because your phone knows where you are.
Here's an extra titbit: Did you know that your desktop and laptop computer knows where it is too? When you go to Google and look up a store nearby or say "Where is there a McDonalds near me", it asks if it can use your location. But how does it know where you are? It knows because your home wifi router, even though access to it from others is blocked, is still pinged by the smartphones of people near you, and that ping includes their GPS data. Your browser figures out where you are in this way.
1984 had nothing on 2019.