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SFandH
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Are you accessing their website from Mexico and logging in? It's real easy for a webmaster to keep track of where people are when they log in. Your IP
address, which is available on every page request, reveals your location.
[Edited on 6-14-2016 by SFandH]
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Bob and Susan
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why would an insurance company care if the car is not NOB???
it seems to me that they would have a WAY better chance for you to NOT file a claim with them
as for canceling a policy after getting plates...well...California cancels the plates if you do that
there IS a "new industry"...cars driving around with "plate readers"...they sell info to companies telling them where cars are at certain
times...Julie chen (big brother) is watching...
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SFandH
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U.S. Customs Tracks Millions Of License Plates And Has Shared Data With Insurance Firms
"It may come as little surprise that every time you cross the border, cameras capture your license plate number to record your car’s location. More
disturbing, perhaps, is the fact that the government seems to share that automobile surveillance data with an unexpected third party: insurance
companies."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/08/21/documen...
More info here:
https://www.google.com.mx/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&...
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BajaBlanca
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Our solution was to Mexican plate our vehicles and get insurance here that covers us north of the border.
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J.P.
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Quote: Originally posted by Bob and Susan  | why would an insurance company care if the car is not NOB???
it seems to me that they would have a WAY better chance for you to NOT file a claim with them
as for canceling a policy after getting plates...well...California cancels the plates if you do that
there IS a "new industry"...cars driving around with "plate readers"...they sell info to companies telling them where cars are at certain
times...Julie chen (big brother) is watching... |
I let my passport expire,it had Ben expired for 3 mos. and I crossed the border several times and they looked at it and never said anything.
I applied for a new one and was hesitant to cross going north without a passport. So around the time the new one was supposed to arrive I armed
myself with my Drivers lics. and Birth cert. and drove up to the booth prepared for the worst. The person at the booth said I don't need to see all
that your new passport was mailed out (date) and should be in your box when you get there.
BIG BROTHER IS ALL KNOWING.
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SFandH
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It is getting to the point where a tremendous amount of information is being gathered about each one of us by various organizations and then collected
together and made available to the authorities and private organizations.
I've been reading about car insurance (the topic of this thread) and car insurance companies have available to them the license plate reader data
collected by the law enforcement agencies so the companies can investigate stolen car and fraudulent claims. They also access your credit report and
factor in your credit rating when determining premiums. They also keep a database of their own called CLUE that is available to all insurance
companies. It contains prior claims data and even info about telephone conversations you may have had with an agent.
https://www.privacyrights.org/clue-and-you-how-insurers-size...
They come up with a number that is your insurance score to compute premiums, much like a credit score which is used to compute loan interest rates.
There are two main issues with all of this. Privacy and accuracy. The privacy issue is obvious. Data accuracy is less obvious. Inaccurate data may be
causing you problems and you don't know it, but it's in your record following you around, available to more people than you think. And free form
information on your record, such as a summary of a telephone conversation is scary.
And of course, public records that have always been available but a pain to access are becoming more and more accessible to everyone via their browser
and a few clicks.
It's the information age and the information is about YOU.
P.S. Don't forget your cell phone when you go out so they know where you are and who you are talking to. 
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Udo
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You are right on the $, H!
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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