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Originally Posted by Kitsune
When you pass through a toll, you are logged, even if you pay with cash. Your license plate is captured via camera and the software pulls the letters.
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Currently that technology is limited to places such as Border Patrol controlled crossings. Information is so large that border guards completely ignore cars that are detected by the system as stolen.
But your example defines what I was suggesting. Just because license plate and EZ-Pass recording is not standard today has nothing to do with what will exist tomorrow. Yes, your license plate is public information. However should that informaton behnd that license plate be available to a toll taking institution? The toll authority can report a toll violator. But law enforcement - a separate institution - should only have enough information to fine the violator.
Currently, without specific guidelines for identity protection, we have this hodgepodege of systems that permit outright privacy violations. In short, we have no specific standards to define privacy. AND we have no system for you to protect your privacy (ie quickly discover that day that someone else is using your identity).
Which goes right back to a question that wolf has not answered:
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Are you saying it is legal but not right for government to track your car?
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What should and should not be right?