here in the UK there is the recently introduced Oyster card, also openly
used for assesing routes used by commuters and tailoring journey
elements of the London Underground accordingly. In a time of lowered
privacy rights and an almost gulag like state (belmarsh prison), it is
clear to me what uses the Gov. might put this sort of data to use.
Curt Sampson wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Colin Belton wrote:
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>>I doubt there would be much merit in keeping [train riders'] data for
>>a long period of time. I suppose they could use the data for analyzing
>>consumer behavior, but would it really be worth it?
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>A lot of companies keep data almost seemingly because it's cheap to
>keep. As well, police or other agencies may request that the data are
>kept for quite some time. If you're arrested in New York, for example,
>one of the first things the police will do is take your Metrocard and
>use it to find out where you've been travelling since you bought the
>card.
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>cjs
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