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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.