Ford Files Patent to Spy on Drivers...

[Henry Every]

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/police-state/ford-files-patent-to-spy-on-drivers/?awt_a=1JPVU&awt_l=V00jen&awt_m=8jr2SPmzQfqvxrVU

[Buford.Justice]

What next? A shut off option so the GUV can stop your car?

[Josh Bayko]

Most cars have been doing this since the early 2000s.

[knot]

If you sub to any of them onboard systems on the vehicle, they have control.

[Highside Hustler25]

There are ways to turn the tracking system off. I have.

[Buford.Justice]

There are ways to turn the tracking system off. I have.

That's good to know. Who wants their vehicle tracked and monitored. Did you do it yourself BTW?

[Morgs153]

If you want to know about something that is beyond this and already in widespread use you may want to look into Flock Safety. Flock technology works with license plate reading (LPR) technology. Now LPR was present when I was still working in the game but a lot has changed since I left it about 6 1/2 years ago. The agency I worked for tried LPRs on a couple cars since we had a grant. These things were big data miners and read every number they could "see". That meant not only license plates but address boards, phone numbers on commercial vehicles, real estate signs, etc. They gobbled so much info it gave our IT Dept fits because it used up so much server space. At that time, they weren't worth the trouble.

But Flock came along and their systems are sold on subscription, basically a per camera basis. They don't just do plates, they can do recognition, and it is good. They don't go on your server either, they go on their cloud and they integrate with other Flock subscriptions around the country and there are many. Not only municipalities but industry, private security, gated communities that want added protection, along major highways and almost anywhere you can think.

So let's say a crime happens in my town and bad guy vehicle is captured on a Flock system here. It can be flagged for alert and the whole system knows to look for it. When that vehicle passes other Flock points it is tracked. Down the Interstate, through toll booths, through other towns. There are many news stories now where I see something like a bad guy shooting in say, the Chicago area and two days later an apprehension in Texas. I then say to myself, "Yeah, I'll bet Flock was used."

It is impressive but I worry about misuse. It can be set up for a multitude of features so I hope the best ethics are behind it. If your town has these cameras set up say - on the entrance to town on some major highways, guess what? You might have it.

You couple this with vehicle systems already existing and cell phones and it is pretty darn hard to be private out there.