“License plates are made to be observed. Sometimes they are observed by a person, and now they are observed by machines.”
There’s been discussion of that ‘excuse’ in the past, in legal cases. The question being whether something where we had a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as driving to the supermarket to buy milk, should be entered into a database, for all to see.
Privacy advocates think not, due to, among other things, the fact that bad guys can use that information to figure out how to rob you.
Others don’t have a problem with it.
>>Others don’t have a problem with it.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with it - and I am not one of those ‘if you have nothing to hide....’ people, but you are already tracked by private corporations when you goto the supermarket. Carry a smart phone with you? you are tracked. Use a credit card? you are tracked, use a supermarket savings club card, tracked again...not to mention all the private security that are (likely) all along the route you drive.
We are tracked, get used to it - making law enforcement the only party that can’t make use of this information seems pretty silly.