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[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The police record license plates all over all the time. That is one reason we have license plates. This is not an intrusion.

[–]la_cues 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

While it's regular practice, that doesn't necessarily mean it's not an intrusion.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you go about town in a car with a big identifying number on it you cannot expect people to not notice the big identifying number. The police wrote down these numbers a hundred years ago. Now they do it with computers. There is a difference of scale, but not of kind.

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nems is a Statist, so his opinions on the matter are to be expected.