Why do people black out their plates?

I’m more or less curious why people make it a big deal when people do obscure the plate. Who gives a shit.

 

OP asking a legitimate question is hardly making a big deal out of it.

 

no biggie, in bigger cities I can understand, but where I live its a mute point. only like 6 cities in the whole state with a pop. larger than 10-15k people

 

No I’m not referring to that I’m just saying someone will post a pic in the “what have you done today” threads and then 5 people break into a debate over the license plate being obscured.

 

Oh yeah, I see that sometimes. The world may never know.

 

I think it has to do with all the social justice warriors on the internet. I have seen a man's business get destroyed all because he parked like an idiot.

 

I’m proud to show mine. No blacking out for me. If you wanna come over that’s fine. Just be kind or I got boxes and boxes of ways to make you leave!

 

I think cause it adds +5 HP to the truck

 

I think we're conditioned to by decades of shows like COPS, blurring out plates. But since Bill Clinton signed the driver's privacy act, all you can get from plate numbers is the vehicle's make and model. I'm still paranoid about it though lol

 

The likelihood that someone is able to look up your license plate and identify you is pretty small, and involves presumably illegal or privileged access.

HOWEVER

When driving down the road, your license plate is visible, but it's just a single data point. Your license plate exists. Big whoop. Everyone knew that already. But if you post a message, you tie your identity to your plate, and therefore have given out much more information about yourself (you've correlated *at least* two pieces of data, and probably more).

So there's value in obscuring it, but probably not as much as people think.

-Craig

 

Maybe some folks think the Boogieman is going to visit them at night........

 

Do you wear this too?

 

Not necessarily. Some states show more information than others. I paid a few bucks for a week trial, and looked up a bunch of friends license plates. Turns out TX and VA show full name and address of the registered owner, and I'm sure a few other states do as well.

https://www.searchquarry.com/free-license-plate-number-lookup/

 

These are the same people who post their entire “Private” life on Face Book....when they’ll be out of town, etc, and then are paranoid about their tag number.

 

Fuck Hoover

 

Sweet ROTC sticker man

 

I dunno why...Beats me.

 

Great question. Stupidest thing I’ve seen. They’re afraid you will be able to track the location of the truck from a pic.
Lmao, nevermind that people see the damn thing everyday !!!