“Obviously this is a great fit for abusers,” an expert on domestic violence and cybersecurity said.

During all this monitoring, I wasn’t anywhere near the rider. I didn’t even need to see them with my own eyes. Instead, I was sitting inside an apartment, following their movements through a feature on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) website, which runs the New York City subway system.

  • atomic peach@pawb.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    From the article, you can get a detailed usage history of MTA transactions by simply supplying the credit card number (which they state can very often be bought on the dark web). The lack of identity confirmation to pull the report is the concern.

    • UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml
      31·
      1 year ago

      You want to force people to show ID to use the subway?

      Why is this info even public? That’s the real issue.