I don't mind plate reading technology in the hands of law enforcement. Just recently, a felon, wanted for murder in a city several hundred miles away, was arrested when the license plate of the stolen vehicle he was driving was read by one of our LEO's plate scanner. Though in the hands of private industry, I would be a little more reluctant in their having this technology.

Yawn... this whole "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" line is lame. I would suggest you remind Jean Charles de Menezes that if he had nothing to hide he had nothing to fear but unfortunately he's dead. Having nothing to hide didn't do him much good.

wired land line , no cell Phone.. and ride the bike. , or drive an antique car , VW old Bug?

Resistance is futile. LOL.

Privacy invasion or not cameras are coming. Just read some of the comments in the commuting forum. People are putting cameras on their bikes for their own protection. It is inevitable that businesses, govts and others will do the same for their protection as well. Somewhere lawyers will recommend retention policies for avoiding future lawsuits. I don't think the cameras are going away. We are going to have to learn to live with them.

I am NOT one of those who believes the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" line. We are already hiding information from others. When you buy from an online supplier you are careful about who you give your SSN and other credit card info to. Maybe you even check their privacy policy. You don't find my name address in any of my online profiles on any forums. Think about it for a minute.

Sounds like actually you could NOT care less.

I knew that line would show up eventually, Benjie tell um what you think of that!

-"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Yeah but you have an entire website dedicated to your life with your name on it.

This is true. "They" know EXACTLY where my Websites are at all times.

I have at least three alias names as well. Joey Bike, Joey Brooks, Joseph D. My real name, the one on my birth certificate, is fortunately the same as several famous sports celebs and politicians. A Google search for my real name is "interesting", so at least "they" would be entertained sorting all of that out.

Anyone can be found eventually. Not all of us can be TRACKED in real-time.

I had jury duty yesterday. I can be found for sure.

furiously deleting

There is no deleting. Once it's online the "fish has been released into the ocean" where it spawns and spreads all over. Put something online, it stays online. No use deleting.

Also, posting here on BF (or Web surfing in general) gives everyone who wants it my IP address (public web access points), MAC address of my laptop or phone, and access to my Internet surfing trail (at least for a short time). So there is always a trail, I just try to keep it from being continuous 24/7 and leading directly to my sleeping quarters.

Easiest way for a hit-man to wack me would be to stake out my Post Office Box. I don't always send a courier to fetch the mail.

Drone tracks every car and pedestrian

The ARGUS-IS can view an area of 15 sq/miles in a single image.

The system automatically tracks any moving object it can see, including both vehicles and individuals on foot, highlighting them with coloured boxes so they can be easily identified.

'So you can go back and say I'd like to see what happened at this particular location three days, two hours [and] four minutes ago, and it will actually show you what happened as if you were watching it live,' said Mr Antoniades.




I think details in the story are exaggerated, but most of it is probably true.

As yet, bikes cannot be tracked. I hear they are trying to fix that deficiency, but are running into difficulty given the erratic and unpredictable behavior of bike commuters.

As long as data is deleted as a matter of routine I have less of an issue with it, for precisely this kind of reason.

When data isn't routinely deleted and merely accumulates I get more agitated at the thought of my every move being watched, recorded, and potentially used against me at some future time.

No, your MAC is only known by your router.

M.

How does my bank know when I switch computers using the same router? Assumed it was my MAC address ratting me out.

I resemble that remark!

I love that people are posting on the internet challenges like "track me big brother!". The reams of personal data available to advertisers, corporate interests, private individuals and yes, government agencies just by logging into Bike Forums is enough to blow my mind.

Attempting to disappear on your bike sans cell phone, sans internet, sans credit/debit cards merely identifies you as, "Oh, yeah, the guy on the bike who pays cash for everything." while you're captured on camera at every convenience store and supermarket you shop in.

Let's face it privacy, even with regards to where and when you have been somewhere, is rapidly disappearing and there isn't much any of us can do about it other than create illusions of control like having a land line for "emergency purposes only."- yeah, good luck with that.

The website's written a cookie or some other temp file the page is coded to look for. If you were to visit the site, log out, delete it's records and log back in again, it would throw a flag.

Buzzman, it makes me upset that people can make money off of me without me being aware, or even getting a cut.

Hence the idea of wearing a cap with IR leds on the brim. It creates havoc with digital cameras.

and to activex with IE browser.

I think JoeyBike is actually Elvis Presley, still alive and avoiding attention by bicycle commuting.

Could I be Bruce Lee instead? Nothing against Elvis, but I have never been very Elvis-like in girth.

that's on your own computer. It isn't broadcast unless a web page reads it from your computer, which isn't generally done.

True it's not transmitted in request headers, but I'm not sure that's very comforting. the web page would access an active component, possibly using javascript if you wish, which reads the information and sends it to the web page script. There will be security alerts depending on your settings.

It's mostly pointless though. We generally care more about identifying a user session than a physical network interface, and tracking is more through ip addresses. Except for mobile. tracking a wi-fi mobile device and targeting external ads and services is a hot thing now.

THIS. I'm not worried in the slightest if I'm being monitored; somebody wants me, I'm here, and I'm ALWAYS ready for it. I can't leave my own property without my 'personal radar' clicking on, a leftover from my military days....

Get over it; your 'liberties' have always been limited. NO ONE is as free as they would like to believe. And, realistically, unless you live alone on an island, you can't expect to be. ANY TIME your 'rights' and 'liberties' infringe on someone else's, you're out of line.