What The Government Could Do With Your Location Data

[Lunican]

What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data



https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data

[ChriswUfGator]

They already use this stuff, it's not a hypothetical, I had the state present evidence in a sexual battery case in Volusia County based on location data gathered from cell phones, and movement data gathered from...you won't believe this one (I didn't till I saw it) the RFID chips the government has mandated be inserted into tires that get read by stations along the highway, in this case at toll booths. Bet you didn't even know about that one. Ultimately we got him a mistrial for other reasons, we'll see in January whether they want to retry him. But this isn't some future debate, it's already occurring. There is no privacy anymore.

[Dog Walker]

you won't believe this one (I didn't till I saw it) the RFID chips the government has mandated be inserted into tires that get read by stations along the highway, in this case at toll booths.

Yikes!  Why do the tires have chips in the first place?  Can they be located with the same reader used on dogs and cats at the vets? 

[ChriswUfGator]

The toll booths pick it up, it's the same RFID system used in sunpass. I don't think it started off intentionally, why the tire manufacturers started using RFID chips I dunno, I'm guessing some requirement, but it could just be for inventory tracking. But some of them do use them, and they'll get logged by an RFID reader like any other RFID tag.