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I loved this beetle owned by a musician that played at my local farmer’s market yesterday (thelemmy.club)
submitted 17 hours ago by to c/pics@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

you can track their routes thanks to license plate readers and deduce where they live

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Well only if you're a cop or something right?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago* (1 child)

    assuming cops are not selling access to it, or not themselves malicious, and that the authentication method to access it is magically perfectly secure sure

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Ok. I can see how it's at least theoretically possible but considering this is just a post about a classic car it doesn't seem too problematic in this instance. It's not much different than just seeing a car on the road. I don't think anyone is hacking into ALPR systems to track down owners of random cars they see whether in person or online.

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