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In all the areas I road travel in I am seeing a bunch of new carwash businesses popping up. These are membership-based services that use license plate scanning technology to match your car to your plan when you go there. They are everywhere now, even in places where you would think only one location could manage enough business but there will be like three or more of them all recently built in the last year. Smallish towns loaded with subscription carwash services. Hmm...

I'm highly suspicious of anything that collects data that isn't normally available to businesses so these license plate scanners really raise my brow. It's just as bad in some retailers that are now asking for phone numbers for every transaction. When I ask them why they need my phone number, they usually say something to the effect of "so you can get credit for your purchase". What? I'm not part of your (((rewards program))) and I don't have a profile I created with your store. How am I going to get "credit" for a purchase when it doesn't relate to anything but excessive data theft? The jews really want our data to track and control our consumerism.

Anyway, these carwashes really do make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I'm not 100% sure of their data collection angles here so I'm wondering if you guys have any insight into what they are doing with it besides their cover story of making it convenient and fast. What do you think they are doing with the correlated data and who's it being sold to or shared with? Do any of you actually trust these things enough to give them you data and get your car washed?

In all the areas I road travel in I am seeing a bunch of new carwash businesses popping up. These are membership-based services that use license plate scanning technology to match your car to your plan when you go there. They are everywhere now, even in places where you would think only one location could manage enough business but there will be like three or more of them all recently built in the last year. Smallish towns loaded with subscription carwash services. Hmm... I'm highly suspicious of anything that collects data that isn't normally available to businesses so these license plate scanners really raise my brow. It's just as bad in some retailers that are now asking for phone numbers for every transaction. When I ask them why they need my phone number, they usually say something to the effect of "so you can get credit for your purchase". What? I'm not part of your (((rewards program))) and I don't have a profile I created with your store. How am I going to get "credit" for a purchase when it doesn't relate to anything but excessive data theft? The jews really want our data to track and control our consumerism. Anyway, these carwashes really do make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I'm not 100% sure of their data collection angles here so I'm wondering if you guys have any insight into what they are doing with it besides their cover story of making it convenient and fast. What do you think they are doing with the correlated data and who's it being sold to or shared with? Do any of you actually trust these things enough to give them you data and get your car washed?

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[–] • 4 pts

License plate cameras are every where. I have a buddy that runs one in his neighborhood..like has his ring doorbell or similar camera collect the tags of all the cars that go by his house.

[–] • 3 pts

I would put money on it that people would get upset about your friend setting up license plate scanners and recording which plates go down his street. They'd be calling for him to be forced to take them down. These same people don't care about the government, LEOs or private companies scanning their plates when out in public, but as soon as some random individual does it, they feel like their privacy is violated and he's some creep. The authoritative programming is strong in the NPC population.

[–] • 1 pt

He is a good man. I think he actually talked to his neighbors and let them know his plans etc.

[–] • 2 pts

His neighbors might be fine with it, but the general public who doesn't mind being spied on by their masters would flip out over a private citizen scanning their plates even though there is no expectation of privacy when out in public. You just know some fat pig of a woman would say that he's a pervert who is doing this to stalk and rape women of some shit like that. Clown world is stupid.

[–] • 1 pt

Well that would be tough shit for them, because it's no different than if you sit out front of your house and write it down. People do not have a right not to be seen in public.

[–] • 4 pts

Getting my oil changed right now. They knew who I was when I pulled in. Fucked up...

[–] • 1 pt

Maybe you had an appointment?

[–] • 1 pt

No. It's a ten minute quick change place. Random visit other than it was needed.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Have you ever been to their shop or another in the chain.

Worked at an oil change place in college. License plate number, make, model, mileage, customer name was stored. Mainly for liability reasons then.

[–] • 0 pt

triggered database lookup of the plate for return customers is trivial. i know you're saying you only have rear plates, but you're also assuming they only have one camera.

[–] • 0 pt

but you're also assuming they only have one camera.

Where did I say that? I didn't assume anything. I just said it was fucked up they knew who I was before I pulled in. 1 camera or 50 it's still fucked up. I will be purchasing some license plate obfuscation spray soon.

Rust-Oleum 214944 Specialty Reflective Spray

Or

PhotoBlocker Spray

I don't use it already because Michigan prohibits the use of red light cameras. So I never had a need until now.

[–] • 3 pts

Not really. But I am suspicious of how many mattress stores are around. There can't possibly be that much demand to justify that any retail mattress stores.

[–] • 1 pt

They only sell like 1 a day and they have like 2 employees, if that.

[–] • 1 pt

The profit margins on mattresses are so high you kinda have to be a retard to fail at that business.

[–] • 0 pt

That makes zero fucking sense. So mattresses are the one industry that haven't been affected by discount big box retailers or online shopping? I can buy a comfortable queen size mattress from Walmart, Costco, or even Amazon for under $300. Why would I go to a store that only sells mattresses and pay 3x more for that?

[–] • 1 pt

Because people want to go sit on the mattresses before they buy. It's a business that almost necessitates a retail location.

Yes, you can get something from Costco which is likely good and for a lot cheaper but you don't get to try it out.

[–] • 1 pt

All of the best mattresses don't even have physical shops as well, such as Sleeping Duck.

[–] • 1 pt

I refuse to buy online. I'm sure I get ripped off, but I like a Serta. It's only once every 10 years anyways.

[–] • 0 pt

I'm an Aussie so our mattress providers are probably vastly different.

I used to get neck and shoulder problems using the typical cheap $200 - $500 range mattresses but as soon as I switched to a Sleeping Duck mattress I haven't woken up with any shoulder or neck problems since.

It's worth investing a good portion of money on a really good mattress because on average we spend at least 1/3 of our lifespan in bed, sleeping.

[–] • 1 pt

I havent seen much of these where I live. But the beaners own the car wash industry here, tough to compete.

I have recently (as in last 2 weeks) 2 different cars. driving around with license plate scanning stuff like on cop cars. That are not cop cars, clearly not cops inside the car, yet going along scanning and photoing all the cars and plates. 4 on the trunk, not the roof where you could get a view. these were all pointed low, like license plate level.

They could have been mapping cars I guess, which is what I guessed at the time, but the more I've thought about those 2 cars, the more suspicious I have become. Both were spotted at the same cross street, not a major throughway.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

As a car guy, do not ever take a car you care about through an automated wash. The brushes and shammy wheels are never really cleaned and you are paying to get swirl marks from all the road grit the previous vehicles left on them.

[–] • 0 pt

Concur except that the touchless can do a heck of a job and don't seem to damage the paint much unless you have a 90's Chevy with shitty water-based paint that can't even take high pressure water without flaking. ;)

[–] • 0 pt

I always heard the problem with the automated washes was the water not the brushes. That water gets recycled and you are relying on a separator to remove sand and grit, some amount always remains and gradually wears away at the paint over time. Probably an urban legend I have no data on how the water works or the long term effect.

[–] • 0 pt

I can see where that might be a problem but I don't think you'd get much grit in the water without clogging the nozzles. Even with some grit in the water, its probably less damaging than a "hand wash" using the provided brushes that also never get cleaned.

There's always the "2 bucket method" for people who want to be really really careful.

[–] • 0 pt

"Come and collect your prize yacht at the nearest police station now" V 2.0

[–] • 0 pt

The problem is fucking laziness, particularly among fucking millennials.

People are so fuckng lazy they will spend any amount of money and give away any amount of information just to avoid washing their own fucking car.

Pathetic.

[–] • 0 pt

So businesses can only collect your plate number if you voluntarily give it to them? Phew.

[–] • 0 pt

Who says it's voluntary? You don't have to subscribe to their car wash service which requires you to agree to the data collection, but you can still do a one-off car wash purchase which doesn't require you to sign up. The license plate scanners will still scan your plate and take a picture of your car without your consent.

And as I and others have mentioned in this thread, there are private companies that are driving around in license plate scanner vehicles. They generally do it in parking lots on private property and they are not asking for your voluntary consent. They can also scan your plates in your private property drive way without your consent. So no, your argument is null and void because they don't ask for your voluntary consent to collect your data even when not in public.

[–] • 0 pt

Exactly, so why do you care about carwash businesses knowing who you are when you drive up and offer these memberships? You're being scanned everywhere you go, probably hundreds of times a day, and if you have a smartphone that's giving even more data.

[–] • 0 pt

So you're arguing that because it's already happening whether we want it or not to just simply accept it and don't say a thing about it? Nice programming you got there.

[–] • 0 pt

Just a few hours ago I had a nigger call me claiming that she was from some gubbermint health service. Said that she wanted to axe me a few questions. I said OK and the first thing that she wanted to know was I using a cel-phone. Told her to fuck off and hung up.

[–] • 0 pt

Everytime I see a car wash, I think of Breaking Bad.

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