• kumi@feddit.online
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    If you check it with Tor Browser in a clean VM, you are not leaking much more than the plate number as such (which I wouldn’t say has the same sensitivity as a password) and the time of lookup. Obviously not safe to use this from your normal smartphone or home IP.

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      We’re talking about a government sponsored surveillance operation. I promise you they already know which license plates belong to you. I’m not sure I understand the risk here.

      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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        the fact that they know your plate number is different than knowing if you (or someone) queried a website about which police queried flock about it