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Also discussed in this thread.[0] It's one of the startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 round.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15070694

Can you monetize license plate reads?

Yes especially when and how long people are parked for, couple that with face and/or financial tracking and you can target marketing to people or locations.

Or selling data to repo people / skip tracers. In fact a few of the larger companies that already exist do that and they share data between clients' ANPR (ALPR) devices on their repo / skip tracer work vehicles. The ACLU published a document about the privacy issues around this in 2013. [0]

[0] https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...

Or private detectives stalking client's spouses. There's a lot of ugly directions for this technology.

People could bid to buy the info, and the car owner(s) could bid against them to keep the info secret?

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