{"id":10173,"date":"2025-01-05T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:42:57","slug":"life-with-eb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/life-with-eb\/","title":{"rendered":"Life with Eb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over a decade ago I used to watch a repo guy out of Utah, and he was using license plate scanners, looking for vehicles in a commercial database his scanner populated along with others&#8230; And he did a lot of title loan repos from check cashing businesses too. And some of his smaller dealerships loaning to sketchy people would install GPS trackers. Consequently, he retired, but I stumbled into Eb&#8217;s videos today, and he appears to have GPS tracking on just about all his repossession targets. And he has a knack for grabbing the cars and people running out after him. The technology has gotten a lot cheaper and not all these vehicles he grabs are probably OEM GPS equiped with cellular data, so you&#8217;d have to suspect GPS trackers installed by the dealer. And you&#8217;d have to wonder what the company they contract with is doing with that data? Are they selling it? If you don&#8217;t hold the title on your vehicle and care about your privacy, you might want to check for a GPS device that has been installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Craziest Repo Day Ever! \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jBvwk-7juso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I can\u2019t believe what he said!\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRspR8-IqOY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the below video he talks about one dealership that installs a GPS tracker with the ability to disable the vehicle remotely. I would guess dealerships writing their own loans who are not going to suffer delinquency or losses if you don&#8217;t make your payments. Consequently, I&#8217;m surprised by the fact he&#8217;s not threatened and the targets aren&#8217;t more aggressive, but then he usually has his wife with him filming and you&#8217;d have think the presence of the camera is affecting their behavior as well as knowing they have it coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dude got overly upset!\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IckVnx5LDbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a decade ago I used to watch a repo guy out of Utah, and he was using license plate scanners, looking for vehicles in a commercial database his scanner populated along with others&#8230; And he did a lot of title loan repos from check cashing businesses too. And some of his smaller dealerships loaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}