Bump.com uses license plate recognition to allow businesses and other drivers to identify you.
Bump.com uses license plate recognition to allow both businesses and other drivers to get in touch with you through a few channels, including cell phone, email and other social media sites.
Your identity is your license plate.
"With Bump, any registered license plate has a built in account for that. You have to activate it but you can still communicate," says Michael DeAloia with Invisia
"You could easily find someone's license plate number and follow them online and that online directory will tell them where you're at, what you're doing, when you're doing it and how you're doing it," says DeAloia.
Bump.com touts itself as a watchdog type of website. For example, if you see a car with a tail light out, you can tell the driver. Or you can hold hazardous drivers accountable. The site allows for a 5 star rating system on license plates.
Bump's website says you can create a profile, but opt to have a license plate unlisted.
"The most obvious unique identifier is a license plate, which BUMP decided would be the initial focus. The notion that your license plate could act as your "firewall" when communicating with someone for safety, social or business reasons, without disclosing any personal information, provided the "A-ha!" moment."
Links: http://www.bump.com/
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