Commute
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Data Gathered by |
Defense |
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Cost/Effort/Tradeoff |
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2017 Car |
2005 Car |
1995 Car |
Notes |
A 1995 car is cheap to buy,
expensive to maintain, in both cash and time. A similar analysis applies to a 2005
car. A company car can
disassociate your name from the car, may involve more expensive insurance,
etc. |
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Your Car |
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More likely to have more radios |
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Environmental
Collection |
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ALPR (Auto License Plate Recognition) |
none |
none |
none |
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Toll bridges |
none |
none |
none |
Not just at bridges, see https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/09/13/1547218/nyc-is-tracking-rfid-toll-collection-tags-all-over-the-city |
Cash payment still involves photo of license plate |
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Parking lot |
pay cash |
pay cash |
pay cash |
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May not be able to pay cash (monthly), avoid ALPR at many
garages |
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Radio: key fob |
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Radio: Tire pressure |
legally mandated? |
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Features in your car |
Blackbox |
none |
none |
probably no black box |
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Far less likely to be on a motorcycle |
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On-Star |
none if present? |
none if present? |
probably doesn't have |
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Hard to buy a GM car without On-Star, hard to turn off
telemetry? |
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Other telemetry features? |
none if present? |
none if present? |
probably doesn't have |
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Vehicle tracking/recovery |
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Eg, LoJack/SVR |
https://gizmodo.com/passwords-to-access-over-a-half-million-car-tracking-de-1818624272 |
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INRIX opencar |
none if present? |
none if present? |
probably doesn't have |
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http://inrix.com/products/inrix-opencar/ |
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In-dash NAV |
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May be receive only, or
may transmit |
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Self-driving features |
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(Tesla, perhaps others,
collect; configurability unclear to us) |
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Backup camera? |
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(Is this sent remote?) |
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Features in your phone |
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Map applications |
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Apple Maps advertises Differential Privacy, less good traffic
info |
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