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Obscuring License Plates in Pictures

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I don't get the idea of obscuring the license plates of pictures of cars on the internet, I suppose there is some sort of privacy or identity or auto theft reason, but if someone wants to know the license plate number associated with my car there are 500 people a day who probably see the car when I go to and from work plus parked all day, anyone of them could write the number down, or if it is such valuable information, take a picture of my car and license plate with a digital camera and post it all over the world from their smart phone, or sell it to the bad people who want it, so anyway, am I missing something? just don't get it and have never worried about it myself.
 
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I'm with ya, that and guys who write out there phn#'s on CL "five oh tu syx sevin".....
 
Agree, I'm not that paranoid even though last summer someone stole my favorite bicycle out of the closed garage. :mad-new: Were they watching or just get lucky.
 
Were they watching or just get lucky

Yep they was watching "U" cumin & goin
 
For some, it's when a car is at a "track day" and they don't want their insurance company to find out.

I've been told that insurance companies regularly comb internet photos of autocross and time trial events. Many owners just tape over the plate at an event so there will be no photo of the plate number.

I suppose it might also be caused by the owner being somewhere that Mommy didn't know about. :highly_amused:
 
image.jpgMost of the shots of my car are taken at car shows. So it's good if my insurer sees them. They will know I am operating within the terms of my collector car policy.

As as far as the phone numbers, it just makes it less likely someone can copy and past your phone number.
 
Data mining and 'bots. They're real, they're written to strip info across the 'net. I will continue to obscure and/or obfuscate any personal data. Bad guys and crooks will constantly be "improving" their nefarious methods of gleaning info and exploiting it.

Have a look at why Google blurs license tags and faces in their ground view images.
 
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I've been told that insurance companies regularly comb internet photos of autocross and time trial events.
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Just considering the odds of any one national insurance underwriter locating a photo of the license plate of just 1 of their policy holders (and recognizing it as such) engaged in one specific activity among the incredible number of cars in the even more incredible number of photos floating around the web, I'd chalk this up to an extreme case of paranoia...
 
I would be more worried about the hand held electronic credit card readers and how you can avoid them. Pretty bad when you have to have a steel wallet! :rolleyes: PJ
 
You only need to be concerned about remote card readers if your card(s) have RFID chips embedded in them. The standard magnetic strip all cards have on them can't be remotely read. Cards with embedded chips carry this symbol or the words "Pay Wave" on them:
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The chips are easily disabled or shielded...you can destroy the chip in a variety of ways, carry the card with a wrap of heavy duty aluminum foil around it or simply carry 2 or more RFID cards in your wallet. A reader will detect the information on all the cards but won't be able to decipher it.

I have no idea where this attached thumbnail came from and I could find no way to delete it!
 

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We were just discussing those cards. Can anyone tell me what that symbol is called.
 
I could.... but then I'd be banned from th' forum. :jester:
 
No idea what the symbol is called, just that it means RFID capable.
 
The best I can come up with is "WI FI symbol". Sounds too simple. Everything else has some kind of name. :rolleyes::rolleyes2::rolleyes2: Even this has a name. "Roll eyes"
 
If I'm doing something "questionable", I borrow the license plate off my neighbor's car.

It's a PA plate, blue, and says "official use only".
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Reminds me, when I was stationed in Pittsburgh many years ago, the Oklahoma plate was stolen off my car one night. Was a PITA because PA requires you to get a replacement tag but OK wants a "Tag Stolen" sign in the back window and does not re-issue. Long story short, a couple of weeks later, the tag mysteriously reappeared on my car. Gotta wonder what it was used for during that time and why the miscreant had the decency to return it.
 
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