Post #1240827

2026-03-09 21:21 UTC

@kkarhan my car is just a few months before ecall was implemented (and it doesn't even work on some cars as 3G got ceased here), and some of the more modern cameras around these days would show I'm obviously driving solo and often at unusual hours of the night. Although any tracking would also show I take the same route every day between either my home and workplace, or sometimes the coastal town where some of our staff are. There is /some/ monitoring of social care workers as during Covid there were a few drugdealers pretending to be them (even getting uniforms etc), as well as healthcare workers themselves going rogue (I've noticed our staff are getting more attention from the Police recently, checking their cars are 100% legal)

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@kkarhan@infosec.space 2026-03-09 21:51

@vfrmedia I mean in any juristictions it's legal for police to randomly pull over cars, check license & registration and ask for mandatory safety equient like Warning Triangle, First Aid Kit and Retroflective Vest to be presented. And that is being used by the police to both gather intelligence as well as annoy individuals (i.e. motorists joyriding) out of an area.I mean, police do it all the time whenever they feel like it, and whilst theybdon't admit to it, I'm pretty shure they check way more plates than they pull over because they prefer to skip all the uninteresting ones…Cuz lets face it: It'll only waste time if they pull over some retirement-aged women who's only negative data on file - a parking ticket in the 1990s - is long expunged from records vs. someone with a decent record driving suspiciously orderly…

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