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NTransit mrlegend4456 Ok, so I think I failed to illuminate a connection. These documents are the same but they are submitted to the government agency as far as I can tell, not to the company that manages MetroCards (and now OMNY), and then that company is instructed to issue the cards. But! ... 1/2Permalink On twitter.com
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NTransit mrlegend4456 MTA documentation around OMNY clearly indicates that in addition to the application process as exists you are also required to sign up to create an OMNY account on the OMNY website or app as part of the process of receiving your benefit... 2/*Permalink On twitter.com
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NTransit mrlegend4456 This means that the person receiving the benifit is not just exposed to the significantly more traceable OMNY system, but must expose their data through sign-up to OMNY where they might not have before, AND ... 3/*On twitter.com
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NTransit mrlegend4456 in interacting with the OMNY website with, as I highlighted, a clearly insufficient privacy policy, the user is exposed to the site/app which grants OMNY additional overly generous data collection and permission to leak that data collection into the ad tech ecosystem... 4/*Permalink On twitter.com
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NTransit mrlegend4456 And it also puts the recipient in a position where they are now exposed to the tracking beacons on the site which OMNY's policies reserve them the right to place and leverage, a thing that they would not have had to be exposed to by mailing in a form. 5/5Permalink On twitter.com
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