I guess I don&#x27;t see the distinction. If I see your license plate at the supermarket and post online that &quot;license plate AAAAAA was seen at Whole Foods on December 6th&quot;, how is that qualitatively different from a license plate reader scanning your plate and storing that &quot;license plate AAAAAA was at coordinates XX.XXXX, XX.XXXX at 2015-12-06?&quot;<p>Unless you want to draw a line between information which is directly observed by people and information which is collected by machine, this seems like a difference of degree, not of kind.