So it seems like this is something anyone can do. As in, I can go and buy or make a license plate scanner all I want. I can publish the data if I choose to. I c

So it seems like this is something anyone can do. As in, I can go and buy or make a license plate scanner all I want. I can publish the data if I choose to. I can sell it or put in online for free. And of course a cop can do the same thing, they just cannot automate it. If the city wanted to spend a gazillion dollars they could theoretically hire an army of people to manually record plate numbers and it would be within the law. It's information leak. The truth is we always took this sort of privacy for granted. The information was there forever--it was just too arduous to process. Nothing fundamental changed from 1980-2020, only the expense and practicality of it. I don't know what the solution is. I just think we are realizing that we never had privacy to start with, we were just shielded because it was impractical to process the data.