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

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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.

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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.

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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.