You did not mention those white pages services that offer a complete data search of anybody for a small subscription fee. I've never used those services, but a lawyer friend of mine (now retired) once told me his office used one of those. These services will scoop up all public info about you - court cases, property owned, etc.... Of course you can get this info on your own since its public info, but for a few bucks they do the search in minutes.
FOBO TPMS Rant
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Good point didn’t even notice that. I was so concerned with location. Thanks!
Andrew Shadow
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Some privacy advocacy group did some testing on that. They found that many cell phones do connect to the cell network and are capable of, and do, track their location and a few other things even when they are powered off. I guess that off is designed to make us feel good, it isn't really off.
I'm totally with you there (the news over here have massively picked up on it as also OEM TPMS transmit unencrypted...) but some MFG's actually sell that form of surveillance as 'feature'...
Remote TPMS
Tire pressure monitoring system. See the real-time tire pressure of your trucks, vans and trailers remotely and in one dashboard.
fleetgo.com
I wish I could recommend my TPMS, but it isn't being sold anymore by Amazon. It isn't the easiest to set up either, but once that is done is pretty hands-off and no need to fumble for a phone to see your tire status. Plus, I can unclip it and tuck the display in my pocket so it doesn't "walk away". I have others for my cars that are easier, but they aren't weather-proof. This'll do.
FWIW, I did find it on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2945980468...Vn7Ei8ch-AeAvUqy6grznOrVzQq0hupRoC21wQAvD_BwE
FWIW, I did find it on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2945980468...Vn7Ei8ch-AeAvUqy6grznOrVzQq0hupRoC21wQAvD_BwE
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Belisaerio
Required by ODNR to buy a deer tag with MC tags
My guess is you have the original app, which is no longer available. All new installations have to use FOBO TPMS. It will not let you add devices if you don't have the location (always) set.I am running the FOBO Bike 2 and have the location service set to Never and it works. Perhaps try to install it again?
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Belisaerio
Required by ODNR to buy a deer tag with MC tags
I have no problem with someone who puts the privacy / benefit line in a different place than me. I object to companies requiring more than they need to provide a service that was paid for.
I have the Spy M1
I think that might be the case. I installed the system in the spring of 2025, I bought it used. Could be old firmware too on the sensors.
Gotta love the name.I have the Spy M1
Uncle Phil
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Interesting anecdote -
My mother never had a computer, never had a 'smart' phone, never been on the internet, shredded everything before ditching it.
One day my sister went over to see her and brought her smart phone.
She entered my mother's name and brought up all the information online that was available about her - which was a bunch.
Our 'data' gets collected in far more places than from the phone you may tote.
My mother never had a computer, never had a 'smart' phone, never been on the internet, shredded everything before ditching it.
One day my sister went over to see her and brought her smart phone.
She entered my mother's name and brought up all the information online that was available about her - which was a bunch.
Our 'data' gets collected in far more places than from the phone you may tote.
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Belisaerio
Required by ODNR to buy a deer tag with MC tags
Places like Lexis-Nexis (you mentioned earlier), Black's and other have collected this information for a long time before the internet. I worked at Lexis-Nexis back when digitization was becoming widespread and they still had a massive staff that would physically gather the records.Interesting anecdote -
My mother never had a computer, never had a 'smart' phone, never been on the internet, shredded everything before ditching it.
One day my sister went over to see her and brought her smart phone.
She entered my mother's name and brought up all the information online that was available about her - which was a bunch.
Our 'data' gets collected in far more places than from the phone you may tote.
As far as I was aware (I was in system development, not acquisition) it was all public record. Lexis gathered legal records and Nexis did news/facts. The value was in doing the leg work for legal and and journalistic entities and making it easily searchable.
Uncle Phil
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BTW, you ought to come to the Mansfield RTE if you can since you are sort of in the area!
https://www.st-owners.com/forums/threads/2026-05-02-oh-bellville-der-dutchman.190960/
Sadlsor
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I got into an argument with someone on farcebook long ago, and he said something assumptive about me, to which I replied "you don't know a thing about me."
Within 3 minutes, he came back with my last 3 jobs, wife's name and occupation, our home address, make and model of my car, and Google Earth picture of our house, among other things.
Don't know what his occupation is / was, but I remember thinking, "Holy Shipping Container!" or something remotely similar.
That was pretty scary.