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sliverstorm on Jan 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars

So long as cars are uniquely identifiable, car movements can be tracked.

Cars will never be allowed to not be uniquely identifiable, for hopefully-obvious reasons that have nothing to do with Big Brother.

fnordfnordfnord on Jan 27, 2015 [–]

They don't have to be uniquely identifiable to everyone. A better system would be an rfid tag that recorded each access, thus allowing the owner to know when they were tracked.

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