{"id":6993,"date":"2016-07-18T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2016-07-18T18:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:21:21","slug":"the-24-ways-were-tracked-on-a-regular-basis-reveal-something-disturbing-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6993","title":{"rendered":"The 24 ways we&#8217;re tracked on a regular basis reveal something disturbing about the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/how-youre-tracked-on-a-regular-basis-2016-6\">Kevin Kelly<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This list, instead, tallies the kind of tracking an average person might encounter on an ordinary day in the United States. Each example has been sourced officially or from a major publication.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Car movements &#8211; Every car since 2006 contains a chip that records your speed, braking, turns, mileage, accidents whenever you start your car.<br \/>&nbsp;Highway traffic &#8211; Cameras on poles and sensors buried in highway record the location of cars by license plates and fast-track badges. Seventy million plates are recorded each month.<br \/>&nbsp;Ride-share taxis &#8211; Uber, Lyft, and other decentralized rides record your trips.<br \/>&nbsp;Long-distance travel &#8211; Your travel itinerary for air flights and trains is recorded.<br \/>&nbsp;Drone surveillance &#8211; Along U.S. borders, Predator drones monitor and record outdoor activities.<br \/>&nbsp;Postal mail &#8211; The exterior of every piece of paper mail you send or receive is scanned and digitized.<br \/>&nbsp;Utilities &#8211; Your power and water usage patterns are kept by utilities. (Garbage is not cataloged, yet.)<br \/>&nbsp;Cell phone location and call logs &#8211; Where, when, and who you call (meta-data) is stored for months. Some phone carriers routinely store the contents of calls and messages for days to years.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Kelly: This list, instead, tallies the kind of tracking an average person might encounter on an ordinary day in the United States. Each example has been sourced officially or from a major publication.&nbsp;&nbsp;Car movements &#8211; Every car since 2006 contains a chip that records your speed, braking, turns, mileage, accidents whenever you start your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}