I think those things are also true, Joe.
Requirements for people to have government license plates on their
vehicles when driving on public roads are un-libertarian and should be opposed.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
On Sep 21, 2021, at 4:29 PM, Joe Dehn wrote:
On 2021-09-21 16:18, Starchild wrote:
While such data collection is not
itself un-libertarian, such data, once collected, may be turned over
to government actors, whether voluntarily or otherwise, and then
become a tool of oppression.
Note also that the whole idea of "license plates" comes from government. So
if a private actor scans license plates and then delivers information based
on that back to the government, government was involved throughout the entire
process.
Of course it's possible that an entirely private road system might also have
something analogous to license plates -- but very likely not in as
easily-readable form. And in the long run, scanning specifically for license
plates probably won't be a very important issue, because a combination of
enough cameras and AI will make it almost as easy to track vehicles without
relying on them.
But still, the general principle remains -- government is _both_ a
facilitator of tracking (by requiring various kinds of identification for
many different purposes) _and_ a potentially-dangerous consumer of tracking
information.
