Repossession Men Using New Technology To Track Cars

10 Mar 2010 - Slashgeo

Here's the last geo-related story that Slashdot discussed over the weekend:Repossession Men Using New Technology To Track Cars.Their summary: "The NY Times has an article about how real-time license plate scanning ischanging the car repo business.MVTRACis 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 policeto 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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