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.

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      But remember they’d also have your IP address, which could be linked to a lot of other data. It’s not that IP address + license plate is useful in itself, but that a connection is now made that could be valuable to a data broker who already has other information connected to one or both sides. And even if you fake your IP address, there’s browser fingerprinting.

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      10 days ago

      I should have specified I need a photo of it to be sure you’re not making it up 🥰

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        No, because then you could use the metadata in the picture to find out where I took it, I’m not stupid. Tell me the name or the address of who has that plate.

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          So remove the metadata or better yet, turn off location tagging entirely.

          Don’t make excuses.

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            Couple things - first, these ‘data brokers’ wouldn’t be getting a picture of the plate if you searched it up on the database, just the plate number. Second, why would having a picture of it even help lol. It would just be the verifying it’s my plate and I already gave you the plate number, explain it first before I even bother.

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              No this is because I know you’re not giving me a real plate. You want a goose chase and I want to show you how easy it is.

              When you decide to stop lying, come back.