I have to ask

[1940plymouth]

Why is it that is some photos that are posted, the license plate numbers are erased?

Thanks,

Bob

[moparbenny]

so one morning you don't wake up in a bathtub of ice with a kidney missing..

[louie the fly]

Coz big brother is watching and some people are paranoid. It's probably also good manners to do it if it's not your car. I could be wrong.

Personally, I wouldn't bother (if it was mine) because I have nothing to hide & nothing to fear.

Louie

[Frank Elder]

For the same reason people cut their address off of magazines when they donate them to the doctor's office, to protect themselves from people that would take advantage of them.

You can call it caution or paranoia, they don't want someone to know where they live.

[tinlizzy]

Ya if they don't know their name they can't look them up in the phone book.

In todays world nothing is safe.

[michael.warshaw]

i would say here in ny its for theft. if you see a nice car and you can read the plate, you can find out where the car is garaged then go and take it and that location. so i would say for theft here in nyc.

[Dan Hiebert]

Paranoia:) What's the difference if you read the plate when its driving down the road or if its on a posted photo? Someone wants to know where you live, all they have to do is follow you home. Besides, access to the State registration systems is limited to "need to know". You can't just sashay into DMV or a police station and request that a license plate be run. If you suspect someone ran your plates, the police can tell you exactly who did it because thoses systems can only be used with authorized access, and that access is supposed to be closely guarded. Cops and clerks can be fired for running plates unless its for legitimate purposes.

[greg g]

Don't worry Bob, they know where you are, how much you are worth, and what color underwear you have on, and what you bought at Mc Donald's last week without your plate number off the internet.

Besides with the little RFI chip that they put into you with your last flu shot, your liscence plate showing is the least of your worries.

And be asured, your 16 digit personal data account that you have been boiled down too, continously updates as you use your credit/debit card, your library card, your grocery/hardware store extra value card, and spend those social security dollars around town.

And you folks with all those favored customer tags hanging of your key rings, you might as well have a flashing beacon on you head.

Have a happy day, and don't worry if you do anything shady, we'll know......

[desoto1939]

Add this to everyone and anyone knowing were you are going. Just look at the highways and you will see cameras on the poles. They say this is for traffic control but they can follow you from your house to you next location. Big brother is wating over your sholder. And most everyone has a cell phoen that has a camera built into it so they can take your plate number and you willnot even know it. Also they now have cameras that take your license plate number incase you run a red light.

In the next couiple of year s the Atlantic City expressway and the GArden state parkway in NJ are doing away with toll collectors. If you do not have easypass then they will take a picture of your tag and then send you a bill inthe mail. Now Big govt can find you at al ltimes.

Rich Hartung

[48P15Annie]

I had a car stolen a few years ago. I take my precautions

[Frank Elder]

Do you really think when you turn off the GPS on your phone or car that it is really off............

[Niel Hoback]

Thats nuthin, my tv watches me!

[plyman 50]

I don't worry about big brother, my wife knows my every move. Whats worse yet is she always manages to find her way home.

[bobjob55]

AWWWWWW ,,,, you guys are just paranoid !!! there is no such thing as big brother watching us ....... ( shush) maybe now they will get out of my head .........aghhhh the pain .... there still in there !!!!!!!!

[Edward Roberts]

Got news for you all: The Guv'mint don't do none of that stuff fer trackin' yer every move... too expensive.

When they want to know where you are, where you're going, what you're eating, who your kids are, which relative just died... they just look at your Facebook page. It's already there.

[Reg Evans]

Here's my phone number.

come and get me.

[Young Ed]

Reg that truck should make it to MN. Throw some garage materials in the back and head east. Oh wait you retired. Dang

[old stovebolt]

Paranoia:) What's the difference if you read the plate when its driving down the road or if its on a posted photo? Someone wants to know where you live, all they have to do is follow you home. Besides, access to the State registration systems is limited to "need to know". You can't just sashay into DMV or a police station and request that a license plate be run. If you suspect someone ran your plates, the police can tell you exactly who did it because thoses systems can only be used with authorized access, and that access is supposed to be closely guarded. Cops and clerks can be fired for running plates unless its for legitimate purposes.

I wish this were true....but unfortuately if you search the web you can find

several different sites citing they can trace people and license plate numbers.

Scary stuff.

[PatS....]

Do you really think when you turn off the GPS on your phone or car that it is really off............

A co-worker always wraps his cel in tin foil at night. He firmly believes the above!

[Don Coatney]

A co-worker always wraps his cel in tin foil at night. He firmly believes the above!

A good friend just told me today that the "alarm clock" on his cell phone still wakes him up even though he has turned his cell phone off. I will tell him to try the aluminum foil trick to see if it actually works.

[Niel Hoback]

Try taking out the battery.

[Jerry Roberts]

Add this to everyone and anyone knowing were you are going. Just look at the highways and you will see cameras on the poles. They say this is for traffic control but they can follow you from your house to you next location. Big brother is wating over your sholder. And most everyone has a cell phoen that has a camera built into it so they can take your plate number and you willnot even know it. Also they now have cameras that take your license plate number incase you run a red light.

In the next couiple of year s the Atlantic City expressway and the GArden state parkway in NJ are doing away with toll collectors. If you do not have easypass then they will take a picture of your tag and then send you a bill inthe mail. Now Big govt can find you at al ltimes.

Rich Hartung

In this city there have been a few arrests where a crime has been observed on the above mentioned cameras and the perp has been followed with these cameras and arrested . I like the cameras .

[Edward Roberts]

That is one absolutely beautiful photo! The subject matter helps, but what composition. Did you do that yourself?

[Niel Hoback]

Yes that really is a good photo. But that truck is so nice that it would make most any location look good.

[Reg Evans]

Thanks Edward and Neil. Actually I've been wanting to take that photo for a couple of years now but kept missing the red leaves or didn't have the camera along. Finally got it !