Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/26/19: Private Company Tracking

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 11:30 a.m.

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell The University of Alabama has created an app that tracks student attendance at football games to help prevent students from leaving the game early when Alabama is pummeling their opponents. And there is a vigorous private marketplace for companies collecting license plates scans from cars as they drive around on their driver’s daily business. What to these two things have in common? Location, location, location.