> Every vehicle displays a unique number in large, readable type, and has for longer than any person has been alive. I haven’t seen any objections. Because the

> Every vehicle displays a unique number in large, readable type, and has for longer than any person has been alive. I haven’t seen any objections. Because the bar to getting that data used to be quite high and limited in scope. Now with license plate reader software in conjunction with street light cameras, the dynamic has completely shifted to easily record and store a detailed tracking log for all observed license plate numbers in a city. Big power dynamic changes like that result in fundamental shifts like “right to be forgotten”, the GDPR, etc. The only thing that has prevented an uproar so far is that you can’t go type in your neighbor’s license plate into a website and get that detailed tracking log at the drop of a hat. Similar thing for cell phone location records from cell companies.