> Expectation of privacy in a private/public place. Private spaces have "always" been private. Public spaces have "always" been pseudo-private. I used to liv

> Expectation of privacy in a private/public place. Private spaces have "always" been private. Public spaces have "always" been pseudo-private. I used to live out in the country when I was younger with every house sitting on multiple acres. If I stopped in the street and had a conversation with a friend, it was a private conversation because we could see other people from a substantial distance. In public people generally assume that what they're doing is basically private unless they can tell that they're being watched, or other humans are so close that there can be no privacy. Technology has outstripped people's awareness of it though. It used to be, for all of history until 20 years ago that license plates were only for other people. Your car didn't care about it, the bridge didn't care about it, license plates were only for other humans (government, police, citizens, etc) to identify your car in some official-ish manner. Now there are machines which can read them from a substantial distance through difficult lighting automatically, nearly flawlessly and retain that information with near perfect fidelity for very, very long time spans. It shouldn't be surprising that people don't know this, don't like it when they find out about it, and react negatively towards it. It's like finding out that there is magic, and has been for years, and that you've been purposefully kept in the dark about it so that some entity with a lot of power has a little more in a vague and unsettling way.