With this in mind, it makes sense to cover up any personal information that might be visible in your shot, and this includes your license plate number, right? Well, not exactly. Think about it this way — if you saw a photo of a car, were able to see the license plate and wanted to find the specific car or person who owned it, would you be able to? The answer is — for the most part — no! If nothing bad has happened from that, it stands to reason your car will be okay on the internet.
That being said, there are some people who might feel safer if they protect as much of their information as possible. Of course, you should do whatever makes you feel most comfortable, but you can also relax a little bit, too.
Martin Banks. May 14, Driver Protection When people are selling a car online, especially in a public venue like Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist, the sellers often cover their license plates with towels, editing and even by sticking their hand or finger in front of the camera to cover the license plate. Stay up to Date with the Latest. It's becoming the same way in Craigslist ads. More and more, I've noticed that Craigslist sellers are obscuring their license plates in ads, either with a piece of paper, or a rag, or a towel, or — more recently — with their finger, held directly in front of the camera to block out the plate number.
The reason they do this, of course, is because people are very protective of numbers that identify us. And I don't want my identity stolen, dammit, because I fear the thief would drain my bank accounts, and learn all my passwords, and come on here and change my little yellow display picture. The kit comes with a lightweight and compact saw with 20V of power behind it, two 5.
So what we do is, we keep our identifying numbers VERY private. You get the sense that some people out there are so worried about this sort of thing that they wouldn't show you their Costco membership card, for fear you might use their discount to buy lettuce.
But is there actually a worry here? If I get your plate number, can I actually do anything with it? Of course, the answer here is no, you cannot, and it's all thanks to a guy named Jim Moran, whose Wikipedia page "Controversies" section is longer than my resume.
So who exactly is this Jim guy? Some crazy freak who used a plate number to harm someone? Some deranged person who stalked a woman with a plate number? No, he was a congressman from Virginia who passed a law that banned this sort of thing. The law is called the "Driver's Privacy Protection Act," and it was signed on September 13, , by President Bill Clinton, who later remarked that he wished he hadn't signed it because "I never would've hooked up with Monica if I knew she drove a Neon.
Anyway: the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, or DPPA as it was affectionately nicknamed by the Legislative Committee for Affectionate Nicknames, prohibits the disclosure of personal information gathered by motor vehicle departments. The result is that the most information a person with your plate number could possibly get is the make and model of your vehicle. Not your name, not your address, not your date of birth, not your social security number, not whether you had feathered hair in the '80s, not whether you reach for slices of bread at restaurants but then put them back when you find out it's an end piece, etc.
So basically you have nothing to worry about when a normal person sees your license plate number, unless of course they have some sort of access to DMV records. Fortunately, this access is limited to the most upstanding members of our community — cops, lawyers, process servers, DMV employees named Alice whose fake fingernails are the size of television remotes — and that means it's pretty hard to get. So is it possible that the person you screamed out will cut you off and track you down?
Technically yes. But then it's also possible that I will wake up in the morning after a full night's sleep, look down, and discover that I have become a refrigerator.
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