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As elsewhere, the expectation of "just another face in the crowd" pseudo-privacy.

When we (as a society, by which I mean my grandparents parents) agreed to have "unique identifiers" prominently displayed on vehicles we own, the reasoning behind that decision was based on a different reality.

This is _very much_ scope-creep - without anyone affected being asked whether it's OK.

If there was a proposal to have police all stop 1000 people per shift to check and record their ID, people and civil liberty groups would be up in arms (perhaps literally).

Is this _very_ much different? Shouldn't we at least have had a discussion about it before rolling it out without letting anybody know what was going on?



Does "just another face in the crowd" pseudo-privacy have any legal precedent?




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