At 07:23 AM 7/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
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At 02:34 AM 7/24/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 01:59:00PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: [...]
And, yes, all of this privacy loss happens because somebody decided it was convenient to put a car-ownership-tax receipt on the outside of a car so police can quickly decide if you've paid your taxes... The rest of it's just implementation details.
Of course, you could just confine your driving to private roads, and leave the license plate off.
Sabotaging your plates so they weren't machine readable or using a car registered in Slovenia or Wisconsin (both possible in the UK) would make more sense.
remember those purple neon "chaser" lights that people used to put around thier plates to to make them harder to read and bounce lidar off of... dont see them much anymore they probably went the way of blackout windows they both make it harder for police to apprehend the dangerous criminals. In fact if you get pulled over with blackout windows in NYC you might be greeted by one of new yorks finest pointing a gun at you instead of the ususal solem "liscense and registration please". I think that if the government could make a case that mandatory brain removal would stop crime most people would be all for it.