Privacy isn&#x27;t a simple Boolean value; there are degrees of privacy that depend on what&#x27;s protected, the environment&#x2F;situation, cultural expectations and awareness, and many other variables. For example, you expect privacy for your body because you wear clothes, even though you &quot;have no expectation of privacy&quot; because you are in public.<p>When the laws requiring license plates were originally created, there was a certain understanding about how that would impact society. Sure, anybody could see them, but you needed a lot of expensive manpower to track one person for a long time or everybody at any time. The impact of having the data &quot;in public&quot; was inherently limited.<p>Now that technology has removed that limitation, the consequences of having a license plate in public view have changed. Pretending that this new situation is addressed with the outdated logic we used to define &quot;no pubic expectation of privacy&quot; assumes that the old definitions of privacy are still valid, which is patently incorrect.