Bruce Mohl has an excellent article in the Boston Globe today (read it fast before it gets flushed down the archive hole) about Logan Airport’s advanced parking system. It snaps your license plate on the way in, optically decodes it, and watches which floors you enter, so it knows roughly where you’ve parked. Every night, humans snap all the cars, so the computer generates a daily report. Benefits: Signs can direct you to a floor with vacancies, and the 25 people/day who lose their car can be directed to it. (I have never been more than three of those people.)

On the other hand, Logan doesn’t ever get rid of the data and seems to have no concerns about sharing it with the police.

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