{"id":92822,"date":"2009-12-21T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010563635_orcacardsbigbrotherpossibilities.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-21T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:24:04","slug":"orca-cards-big-brother-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92822","title":{"rendered":"ORCA card’s Big Brother possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old switcheroo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n

Let Big Brother watch me use my ORCA card [\u201cORCA card worry: Boss could track your travel,\u201d page one, Dec. 18].<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

By the time he starts to watch me, my card will be in the hands of someone else. I already have a pretty big group of like-minded friends who plan on having an ORCA card trading party as soon as our employers give them out.<\/p>\n

So when my boss wants to see where I have been, all he is going to find out is where my neighbor went.<\/p>\n

A simple plan to thwart a stupid idea.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mike Crowley, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not exposing my child to this<\/strong><\/p>\n

In \u201cORCA card worry: Boss could track your travel,\u201d it mentioned people could assure privacy by purchasing a nonsubsidized card and not registering it.<\/p>\n

Actually, this is not true if the purchaser is under 18 years old. I went to purchase my 6-year-old son an ORCA card. I was told I would not be permitted to get him a youth pass unless I was willing to give his name, birth date and full address.<\/p>\n

I am deeply upset. I do not want all of my children\u2019s personal information and movement patterns a matter of public record. This is not only an invasion of privacy, it\u2019s a major safety concern. My current solution is to get a number of youth ORCA passes, register them to fictitious names, addresses and birth dates, and rotate them randomly.<\/p>\n

The ORCA card needs to record whether it is loaded with a current pass, what kind of pass it is loaded with, and any current balance in the e-purse. All other information regarding ridership can be gathered from simple counters on the busses, the same way ridership is counted when cash is used.<\/p>\n

If ORCA wants to allow people to register their cards and protect their balances, lovely. I think it\u2019s a service many would appreciate. But requiring it? No way.<\/p>\n

ORCA not only allows employers to monitor their employees, ORCA also forbids parents from protecting their own children\u2019s privacy. That is outrageous.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Karen Crisalli Winter, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The old switcheroo Editor, The Times: Let Big Brother watch me use my ORCA card [\u201cORCA card worry: Boss could track your travel,\u201d page one, Dec. 18]. I don\u2019t care. By the time he starts to watch me, my card will be in the hands of someone else. I already have a pretty big group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}