Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) aren’t just helping police investigate crimes anymore. They’re now being used to flag drivers for supposedly “suspicious” driving patterns.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The Wired article linked by the OP article mentions visiting multiple banks in a week as suspicious behavior that gets flagged… if we had a car (assuming it needs a license plate to attach to you and look up info), that would have pinged my spouse last week. Stupid fucks live in such ivory towers that they’ve never had a bank run out of quarters for the washing machine.

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      Side benefit of the extreme proliferation of gambling: basically every bar has a shitload of quarters now.

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      I used to visit the bank way more often when living paycheck to paycheck because it was the only way to get ahead of insufficient funds charges. I was depositing cash from whatever I could sell to pay off the $25 per item overdraft fees.

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      I got so tired of the quarters problem (bank online so I get ATM fees then have to go to a laundromat to pretend I’m doing laundry there) that I bought a whole-ass washing machine for $180 to avoid the problem.

      I’m actually saving a ton of money and because my landlord is checked out and lives far from here he’ll never know we have a portable washer in our apartment.

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        I’m actually saving a ton of money and because my landlord is checked out and lives far from here he’ll never know we have a portable washer in our apartment.

        Why would your landlord have a problem with a portable washer in your apartment? Is there language written into your lease prohibiting it?

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          Apparently many leases do, but mine doesn’t. I’m sure it’s a liability thing especially with flooding or water damage.

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      I used to be a manager at a smoothie shop. went to like two banks a day with different business needs, guess that’s not allowed… who knew?