Bounty hunters and stalkers are able to track you in realtime by lying to your phone company and pretending to be cops

[RickMycroft]

@doctorow

According to court records from the US Marshals case, Edens impersonated a law enforcement officer in order to locate and repossess cars from people who were late on their payments.

Intense!

The Repo Intelligence Agency

The Toronto Star did a reprint of a May WashPo article today. It was the mass plate reader technology and how it’s being used that made me sit up. Now we have private repo companies conducting police state-level surveillance on people. Lewis works for Relentless Recovery, the largest repo company in Ohio and its busiest collector of license plate scans. Last year, the company repossessed more than 25,500 vehicles — including tractor trailers and riding lawn mowers. […] Relentless scanned 2…