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> it's that any cop can access your location history for any reason

This requires the assumption that your location and your car's location are always one and the same.

If you care about your privacy consider leaving the vehicle with tracking numbers on it at home sometimes. It's not just cops that have ALPRs and you cannot prevent this technology from existing.

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I’m sorry, is the proposal here that you remove your legally-required number plates and travel that way (in which case Flock’s “vehicle DNA” feature recognition will quickly reidentify you), or that you buy or rent other cars? I guess starting and ending somewhere other than your home?

Or did you have a different mode of travel in mind that compares favorably to wheeled transportation on public streets?

Billions of people all over this planet take trips every day without the use of personal private automobiles.

It's fascinating how, to me, my comment was very clearly "don't use a car if you care about privacy" but that interpretation didn't even occur to you. Car dependency runs deep.

While billions of people do operate without cars (I’m one of them!), I feel like there’s a conditionality kind of constraint here: of the set of people who would normally be operating cars on local US arterial roads—that is, of the set of people whose privacy this technology impacts in the first place—what proportion seem likely (or able) to do whatever privacy-implicated things they need or want to do without said cars?

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