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[ PRIVACY Forum ] San Francisco "Clipper Cards" reveal location to
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Tue Oct 16 18:23:55 2012
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:02:36 -0700
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San Francisco "Clipper Cards" reveal location to authorities
http://j.mp/OFROBA (NBC Bay Area)
Use of the card, accepted by every major Bay Area public transit
system, is soaring with 689,000 transactions a day and more than 1
million active Clipper cards. Many cardholders might not realize that
data tracking their every move on public transit is stored on
computers and available to anyone with a search warrant or subpoena.
Personal data can be stored for seven years after a Clipper account is
closed, according to the commission's policy. In addition, a new
smartphone app, called FareBot, allows anyone to scan a Clipper card
and find out where the owner has been. Privacy advocates say the
transportation commission should not store data on individuals'
locations. "As with all location information, Clipper cards can tell
quite a bit about a person - it could show that a person got off BART
at a rally," said Chris Conley, an attorney with the American Civil
Liberties Union on Northern California. "Clipper is one place that
collects this data that people might not really be aware of."
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