&gt; The government did issue you license plates specifically to be able to track you.<p>They issued the plate so that when something happens involving a car, they can look at that car and figure out who the owner is.<p>That&#x27;s quite different from tracking. If you have enough license plate readers all over the city, you can get a pretty good picture of all the movements I make. And store them for long periods of time.<p>License plates were issued to identify the owner of a car. Not to comprehensibly track the movement of all car owners and be able to look up every place I went to in the last year or longer.