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The government is in it rights to very specifically limit what people/corporations/muni's can do with license plate data.


Say a savant in your neighborhood has been able to memorize everyone's license plate, when and where they park. This violates a privacy law on data retention. Do you advocate fining and imprisoning the savant for the facets of her mind? Would you advocate that if this information ended up in a book, that the government should start collecting these books and destroying them? Maybe in a fire? like a book burning?


> Do you advocate fining and imprisoning the savant for the facets of her mind?

No I advocate not taking you seriously from now on.


>> Do you advocate fining and imprisoning the savant for the facets of her mind?

>No

>The government is in it rights to very specifically limit what people[...] can do with license plate data.

Ok, thanks for retracting your previous position, for a second there you were advocating for people to be imprisoned for things they do with their mind.




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