Big Brother for the win!

(I didn't mean that to be snarky at you, danf.)

Very cool - much mention is made of the negative aspects of such tracking, but we don't hear much of the positive side.

When I still lived in London my Oyster card (similar to a metrocard, it seems) saved me once, though not because of its tracking facility. I was miserable for various reasons and had gone for a loooong walk through the city, and just when I was really tired I was picked up by a man who bought me a drink, then another, then another, told me I was lovely then said he'd walk with me and 'shall we just go through this [really dark] park' and I gathered all my faculties together, told him I was going home and legged it to the nearest tube station - he followed me but my swipe card enabled me to just walk on through the gates, leaving him behind.

The coolest part, I think, is that the judge quoted Heraclitus in his ruling.

Whoa. My My Metrocard happened to come on my iPhone when I came to metachat just now.

My Metrocard happened to come on my iPhone

I don't blame it, iPhones are teh hawt.

I once considered fighting a speeding ticket based on the fact that I passed two atm surveillance cameras right before I got pulled over. My rationale was that if I subpoenaed each bank and reviewed the security tapes, I could figure out the exact time that I passed the Wells Fargo camera and the time I reached BofA, calculate my speed, and prove that I wasn't guilty.

I would have been an utter waste of taxpayer money so I decided not to

Big Brother for the win!

Yeah but in this case, little brother had the guy locked up, and Big Brother said, hey, not so fast.

But now there's a crack in the case against the little brother, so that's good.