I&#x27;m surprised that this isn&#x27;t as appalling to others as it is to me.  Yes, I&#x27;m very disturbed that every time a police car drives past my car, a record is created in a database.  The government basically knows everything about you at that point, where you shop, who you are sleeping with, etc.  If you were an activist the government would practically know everywhere you go and everyone you associate with.  To me this is the meatspace version of the NSA collecting all of my internet traffic, which I thought was pretty universally disliked here on HN.