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“Do we really want to live in a culture where the law-abiding movements of everyday citizens are tracked and accumulated in perpetuity?” Simitian told Ars. “The thing that I think is not widely understood in the digital age is that there’s a difference in degree which ends up being a difference in kind. The fact that you might be spotted [by the police] in a parking lot, that’s very different from a half billion records for a company that accumulates 40 percent of the vehicles in the country in a year. The ability to collect and maintain data in vast numbers electronically and the ability for that information to move anywhere is just not just a quantitative difference, it’s a qualitative difference.”
Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers | Ars Technica
Stephanie Booth is a freelance internet geek who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Digital Crumble is where she dumps all sorts of interesting stuff she finds online.
