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That’s kind of the point of license plates though.

They are there firstly so that when a driver damages something or hurts someone, they can be held responsible. What’s so bad about that?





They can be used to hold anyone responsible for anything I deem wrong. What's so bad about that?

Let's say I'm partnering with flock to track anyone who drives to say, a political convention I disagree with, and basically make your life hell.

Maybe you don't want your employer to know everywhere you go. What's so bad about that?

Or maybe you offended me in public, as long as I record your plate number I can find out your place of residence and employment through the FlockYou app for only $5. After all, people deserve to be held accountable for their actions.


More practically, it’s about if someone hits you or someone you care about with their car or the like.

Aggregation of data like Flock does is a different matter and can be handled separately. Like I mentioned in my other comment, other countries tend not to have things like Flock, since they understand unregulated data processing such as that is problematic for all sorts of reasons; the US is a big , big outlier in this area.




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