<div dir="ltr">Guys lets get serious. If the government wants to know where you are and track you they will do it without help from a metro card. Your phone no, Bank account, workplace, residence are all easily available to a well oiled government agency. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Mark, this looks very similar to the London Oyster card which is RFID<br>
based. I presume there are many card systems in London but the Oyster<br>
is most popular. Registration of the card is not mandatory but as from<br>
July, you cannot travel on the Overground bus network with cash. The<br>
card costs £5 and you prepay upto around £90. They have many packages<br>
in the card like Student pass, pay as you go, freedom pass, weekly<br>
pass, monthly pass E.t.c. each with different discount options.<br>
<br>
The card is valid on the National Rail, underground, overground,<br>
trams, and river services, with substantial cheaper fares than paying<br>
cash. It is estimated that 99% of Londoners use this card to travel.<br>
<br>
Registration of the card has the added advantage of protection from<br>
loss. Imagine losing a card with £90 which is the maximum you can load<br>
on the Oyster.<br>
<br>
What I find interesting thought is the Freedom pass on the Oyster card<br>
given to people over 65years or the disabled to act as a free travel<br>
pass.<br>
<br>
On 13/07/2014, Mark Elkins via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5">> In South Africa, in order to use the Gautrain, you need to purchase a<br>
> Gautrain Card and then put credit on it.<br>
><br>
> The Card itself is about R10 ($1). It contains no personal ID<br>
> information. However, I presume a fair number of people add credit<br>
> straight from their Credit Card... so it's technically possible to track<br>
> the Identity of the Card to the person who buys the credit. The same<br>
> Gautrain card is also used to enter/exit the railway parking garages. No<br>
> idea if cameras are used in the transaction. (The parking Entry/Exit<br>
> camera's at OT Airport *do* record your car registration - so the entry<br>
> ticket number plate has to match the same registration plates on exit -<br>
> ie Number Plate recognition is in use.)<br>
><br>
> Anyway - the Gautrain is technically Cashless - except "recharge"<br>
> systems are available to top up your cards at the station entrance.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 09:31 +0000, Grace Githaiga via kictanet wrote:<br>
>> Let's start with the much hyped "beba pay" system. Having travelled<br>
>> numerously to America, Canada, South Africa and a few countries in<br>
>> Europe, I must inform Kenyans that they have been duped. No country in<br>
>> the world has imposed restrictions on their citizens using cash money<br>
>> to pay for transport services.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Track your every move<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> The only thing that is done with regard to enforcing the use of cards<br>
>> is that special discounts are offered to those who pay using their<br>
>> cards.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> The truth is that the government will track your every move from now<br>
>> henceforth since all the cards are connected to a central data base<br>
>> system. What if some corrupt government official sells the said<br>
>> information to thugs; will they not be able to track your every move?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Beba-Pay-card-and-national-biometric-registration/-/440808/2381900/-/12latj2/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Beba-Pay-card-and-national-biometric-registration/-/440808/2381900/-/12latj2/-/index.html</a><br>
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