private mobile parking-payment app
ParkMobile
Industry Mobility
A private mobile parking-payment app used by cities, venues, universities, and private parking operators. ParkMobile has practical utility, but it adds app fees, data capture, account friction, and error risk to a basic public-space transaction.
Why this matters: Parking apps are a small but irritating example of mandatory digital mediation of everyday life.
Letter grade D Extractive High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
D - Extractive
The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Surveillance Capture.
Strengths
- Extraction3/10
- Product Integrity3/5
- Scale Integrity3/5
Penalties
- Surveillance Capture-3
- Subscription Capture-2
- Accountability Opacity-2
- Identity Capture-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims14
- Direct axis claims14
- Coverage14/14
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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1 / 10 |
ParkMobile's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the mobility category. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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1 / 10 |
ParkMobile's public record indicates whether binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers. Linked evidence
|
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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3 / 10 |
ParkMobile's model determines whether money flows primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery. Linked evidence
|
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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2 / 7 |
ParkMobile's linked public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the institution. Linked evidence
|
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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2 / 7 |
ParkMobile operates in an everyday-need category where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power. Linked evidence
|
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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2 / 7 |
ParkMobile's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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2 / 5 |
ParkMobile operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice. Linked evidence
|
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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3 / 5 |
ParkMobile's core service has practical everyday utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality, data handling, and accountability. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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3 / 5 |
ParkMobile's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility customers, or communities. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Subscription Capture
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Manipulative recurring-payment, automatic-renewal,
cancellation-friction, bundling, trial-conversion, or refund designs
that profit from inertia or confusion. Range: -5 to 0.
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-2 |
ParkMobile's public record makes Subscription Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability
structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
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-2 |
ParkMobile's public record makes Accountability Opacity relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-1 |
ParkMobile's public record makes Identity Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Surveillance Capture
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Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial
recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of
customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
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-3 |
ParkMobile's public record makes Surveillance Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional
necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or
non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
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-1 |
ParkMobile's public record makes Ideological Disavowal relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
No bonus credits applied in this version.
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
High 80/100
14 verified linked claims 14 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 14/14 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 16/20
14 verified linked claims
Source quality 11/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
14 direct claims across 14 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 10/10
14/14 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1ParkMobile's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the mobility category.
- ParkMobile aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2ParkMobile's public record indicates whether binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers.
- ParkMobile aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
3ParkMobile's model determines whether money flows primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery.
- ParkMobile aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
4ParkMobile's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the institution.
- ParkMobile aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
5ParkMobile operates in an everyday-need category where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
6ParkMobile's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.
- ParkMobile aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
7ParkMobile operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
8ParkMobile's core service has practical everyday utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality, data handling, and accountability.
- ParkMobile aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
9ParkMobile's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility customers, or communities.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
10ParkMobile's public record makes Subscription Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
11ParkMobile's public record makes Accountability Opacity relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
12ParkMobile's public record makes Identity Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
13ParkMobile's public record makes Surveillance Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
14ParkMobile's public record makes Ideological Disavowal relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- ParkMobile sales sheetGeneral web source · 58%
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