Maybe it’s just me, but that makes zero sense. Your license plate is visible to literally EVERYONE when you’re driving around and even parked in your driveway. Why blur it out in pictures?
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Anyone can see a photo of a license plate and connect that to whatever username/screen name you are posting from. That’s one more piece of information that can be combined with all the other bits of information or pictures that you may have posted that can lead to doxxing or some level of identity fraud. And this may be trivially easy to compile, as the data is already there, which means more people would be willing to do it, either out of pure malice or for their own gain.
If you just see a car on the road, all you have is the license plate. You don’t know anything about that person, and you would need to actively dig into that car/person’s history to get similar information. It’s a lot more work to track someone’s personal details when they’re not actively sharing them.
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