This has hit me I think 5 times in the past 2 years, either from gas station/fast food skimming or online. Sometimes it works in my favor when one of my recurring billing services complain and I can just let that card and service die a natural death. thank you SEA mafia, whoever you are.
Blurring or Covering License Plates in Pics
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This has hit me I think 5 times in the past 2 years, either from gas station/fast food skimming or online. Sometimes it works in my favor when one of my recurring billing services complain and I can just let that card and service die a natural death. thank you SEA mafia, whoever you are.
Here in Sweden we can know everything about both the car and owner and anyone living on the same adress from the plate. Like adress, phone number, salary, full name but that is a law we have that everything is public about everyone.
For the car you can get milage, failed or passed MOT, if it taxed(illegal to drive a non taxed car on the road) if it is imported and much more. I dont buy a car if the plate is blured. If the seller blures it he has something to hide.
You can even look up the plate in my profil pic and you get all my information, feel free to do so. I dont care at all.
For the car you can get milage, failed or passed MOT, if it taxed(illegal to drive a non taxed car on the road) if it is imported and much more. I dont buy a car if the plate is blured. If the seller blures it he has something to hide.
You can even look up the plate in my profil pic and you get all my information, feel free to do so. I dont care at all.
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I usually cover my license plate when I post pictures of my car. I do so for the reasons I can’t think of, but it doesn’t bother me if someone else takes a photo of my car and the plate is visible online. 
If someone made comments here that were personal or controversial and/or they just wanted to remain anonymous on BITOG and disassociated from those comments then it would make sense to blockout their plate on here. Driving around town no one is making any connection between what you’re saying or doing on the interweb and your identity.
This is the only way I get doing this
In California I know you could contact the DMV, back in the 70's, pay a fee and they would give you name and address of owner. That stopped by the end of the 70's for obvious reasons. Today you can go onto the BAR and plug in a license plate, or VIN, to get the test history of any car from 1976 and newer. All you get is the smog test history dates and whether passed or failed. Also tells you when last registered which is good when looking at cars on Craigslist and the seller claims current. As for older than 1975 and down you can still plug in a plate or a VIN. I just did on my Mustang and Parklane. End result was their last ever smog test result in 1997.
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I have seen private individuals with ALPR cameras on their vehicle, like 6 cameras mounted an 10 year old Honda (with sheetmetal screws) accord doing what I suspect to be license plate data mining.
Insurance companies and many other industries would be interested in seeing which license plate is where at any point in time. Is someone rate jumping by driving their Alaska registered 911 in NYC? The insurance company can have an underwriting flag popup if they subscribe to the license plate trackign company's service.
https://sls.eff.org/technologies/automated-license-plate-readers-alprs
That's insane, works in a high trust society I guess where everyone thinks alike and is kind to each other.
The only reason this would ever be an issue is what PWMDMD said above:
If someone made comments here that were personal or controversial and/or they just wanted to remain anonymous on BITOG and disassociated from those comments then it would make sense to blockout their plate on here. Driving around town no one is making any connection between what you’re saying or doing on the interweb and your identity.
That's it. This reminds me of my parents (80s) burning their mail b/c "someone might get our name/address". Meanwhile, have a landline still and actually answer it when 99% of it is scammers. How about just don't answer your phone?
My license plates online have nothing to do wiht CC fraud, buying tons of crap online and traveling regularly does. Spam calls? Tons of them and they started when I got my business license 8 years ago b/c that is public info that folks farm and use. It's like if you get a bad traffic ticket, once that info is on their court website, you will get piles of mail from attorneys to help you out. At some point, if you want to live and enjoy our modern world, this comes with it. Nobody is going to see my plate here, and think "I'm stealing TiGeo's identity" - they can do that in far more easy ways. My guess is you just don't do a lot of online "stuff" and hey, that's cool but posting a pic of your car/plate isn't the reason for your success, generally not doing much online is.My intention is not to convince you or anyone else in this thread. I like to minimize my exposure for the reasons I stated earlier, even if the possibility is quite minimal.
Call it paranoid or irrational, but thus far I have never, knock on wood, had my CC info stolen, I get very minimal amount of spam calls and I don't get any spam/phishing emails. Perhaps my approach does make a difference,
