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John Turney said:
What's worse is that your health insurance will ding you for having donuts.
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They can probably do it now with just your shoppers card. "I see you've been buying cookies therefore we won't pay for your diabetes meds"
I read an article that used an example of a person driving the same route to work everyday. With that info, a fast food chain like McDonalds can target you with offers to stop at their places along your route.
People who owe money can be tracked down... data mining is scary and it is making the sellers of the data lots of cash.
Who owns YOUR data?
 
Who owns your data is "everyone but you". Even the 3 credit reporting agencies that you cannot opt out of - they will provide your data to anyone but charge you to see it yourself (except for the once-per-year review thet they legally have to allow you but not make it easy). Its our data, we should be allowed to look at it anytime we want in my opinion (without having to pay for the right to do so). These are all reasons I dont use credit cards/online payments, dont use store loyalty cards (and forego the slight discount they offer), avoid using "free" services that require registering with identifyable information and otherwise just try to stay below the treeline as much as possible. Even so its not possible to stay completely out of sight (as evidenced by the stack of "offers" I get from scammers claiming they want to buy my home even though I have never listed it for sale, some complete with photos). Minimize exposure is the best one can do...
 
Of course this applies to rental cars too! Rental Agency telemetrics shows most everything, including fuel-out and fuel-in amounts and will charge any differences to a 10th of gallon. Can't rely anymore on a gas gauge pegged on "F" because the fuel tank may not. Thing is, there's no credits if you return the car with more gas in the tank than when you left.
 
We're all commodities to be cataloged, categorized and targeted. For a myriad of reasons, none of them much to do with our personal well being.

More to do with herding.
 
DrEntropy said:
We're all commodities to be cataloged, categorized and targeted. For a myriad of reasons, none of them much to do with our personal well being.

More to do with herding.
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Orwell would have a field day with telemetrics.
 
The real suckers in all this are the companies that pay for my information (no, I don't feel sorry for them). The data miners call it "analytics", but it is really regurgitation. If I go to Sweetwater's website to look at a guitar amp, I get ads for that amp at Sweetwater. That is useless to me. If I bought it, I don't want another. If I didn't buy it, an ad for the same price won't change my mind. Maybe if I got ads from Guitar Center for that same amp but cheaper, there would be value for me, but that has never happened. That would be analytics.

As far as the digital plates, if they aren't forced on me by the DMV I'm not going to spend time thinking about them (anymore).
 
I got a chuckle from the beginning of the article saying "no more rusted plates". Guess he didn't know California plates are aluminum.

As for driving without a plate, we used to have a neighbor who went at least a year without plates on his car. He was thought to be a drug dealer, so the police were certainly watching him.
 
…….The data miners call it "analytics", but it is really regurgitation. ……..
The insurance companies call it “money”.
 
When I got my big old Suburban I had to wait for the permanent plates to be stamped so they issued me a temp. tag and the lady at the state office advised me to place it inside the back window for theft/weather protection. The back windows have a dark tint which made it pretty invisible. I drove around for about 3 weeks before an officer noticed there were no plates and pulled me over. I expected it because paper temp. tags are almost an automatic traffic stop in some areas around here, so I had all the correct supporting documents in a binder sitting right on the other seat for just that eventuality. Just today I was stopped at a light behind a truck which had its paper temp. tag expire in July, so they have apparently been riding around for 3 months with it exprired. Shows how vastly enforcement can vary from town to town, county to country, etc..
 
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