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Repo Men Using New Technology To Track Cars

Posted by kdawson on from the more-you-drive-the-less-intelligent-you-are dept.

kamapuaa writes "The NY Times has an article about how real-time license plate scanning is changing the car repo business. MVTRAC is one of several companies providing technology to track car license plates automatically, in order to populate private databases. This new tech is used by car repo companies to help banks or other lenders repossess cars; by police to find stolen cars or to locate ticket scofflaws; or really for whatever application MVTRAC and its competitors feel like pursuing, as the new-found industry lacks any kind of government oversight."

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  1. driving is not a right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm sorry, driving is not a right in the US.

    John

    1. Re:driving is not a right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      well shut the fuck up you snobbish blowhard.
      the right to travel is an absolute right.
      if you cant travel without a car then driving is a right.

    2. Re:driving is not a right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      So? Nobody's denying you the privilege but you have to drive a car you can afford, pay the insurance and park it properly when you arrive.

      From what I've seen though, "living within your means" isn't what Americans are best at.

      Actually, with the election of Obama and the unleasing of the Pelosi-created ginormous deficits, we're trying to emulate the Greeks and Venezuelans and go completely broke.

      Read the US Constitution and learn where all spending bills must originate, and see how US deficits, which had been shrinking, began to grow again under Pelosi's "leadership", when Democrats took control of the one body of the US Government that creates those spending bills.

      Nevermind what they're projected to do under the Great God of Hopenchange.

  2. Almost any industry lacks oversight in the US... by Yaa+101 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Almost any industry lacks oversight in the US, that is why that place is a litigious wild west.