I now know I am OFFICIALLY on some sort of watchlist! Yippee!
The list is supposedly not exhaustive, but I recommend everyone to search your plate to see if you’ve been tracked. I worry for the safety of the women who have been searched more than 50 times by the same user.
Searching your plate adds it to the list. I bet.
It’s adds you to the “interested to know if law enforcement has any interest in them USA Today Honeypot 2026” database, which probably marks your file as antifa or something
USA Today isn’t exactly top notch news but what would they have to gain from feeding search data to the government? People on both sides of the aisle are pissed right now, hence the searchable database to begin with. Lots of women checking to see if their exes have been stalking them. This wouldn’t be any kind of useful correlation to want the data on.
The only thing any company cares about gaining, money.
What do you think that would accomplish, exactly?
Its a data point
That’s why I entered mine and a bunch of other ones in the Lion’s Den parking lot.
Sure. So is your comment.
Now. What do you think anyone would accomplish with that data point? Because USA Today would have possession of the data point of a presumably-legit tag number being entered into this website.
Companies do collect data to sell constantly, but I’m just having a hard time trying to make this one work. Like, not everything is a fucking conspiracy, man. Not everything is a bot. Not everything is an ad.
People get distracted from the real problems by going on and on and on constantly how every single thing is a threat and dangerous.
And yet… those same people will post public comments that can be collected and sold.
Sure, sometimes that happens. But USA Today setting this up and collecting data to sell just doesn’t pass the laugh test.
It’s dumb.