I'm with you Pete, I can't see a logical reason, but it all seems to spread from the personal data issue and the fact that newspaper blur no. Plates as a matter of course, although that is for understandable security reasons and I doubt anyone is interested in our Joe Soap reg. Plates.

I prefer not to confirm to our followers that it really is us,

Hi With you all the way on this ,I could walk to my local shops and be filmed ,I don't have a criminal record ,if local known criminals were being targeted and filmed it would infringe their human rights,

Sorry to go off topic a little but what do these ANPR cameras look like. I've noticed these strange grey twin lenses cameras appearing all over the place recently usually attached to lamposts etc. I was just curious to what they were.

I knew I should have purchased the stealth version of the Yeti,
or installed laser zappers.

[quote="Pepé Le Pew"|p6790]I apologise in advance if anyone thinks I'm asking this question simply to be provocative; mostly I'm not, though there might be a tiny weeny little bit of me that is, I s'pose...
Why does anyone bother obliterating number plates on photographs posted on here?

Im not offended with the question in the slightest, however I have little story to tell why I blank out my number plates.

About 19 years before the world wide web took off I use to have a little blue mini metro, I have always been a law abiding citizen so it was a bit of a shock when out of the blue I started to receive parking tickets for it, this was really inconvenient and took a lot of my time as I had to prove where I was to avoid the escalation of more fines and a summons . That is bad enough to warrant blanking out my number plates however the story gets more interesting.

I was away with the Army when I was ordered to go and see my OC , he told me that he had the police on the phone asking a lot questions about me and he had to verify an alibi that I was indeed away on military service.
What had happened was that my cloned plates on a blue metro had been used to do an armed robbery at a post office , the police arrived in force at my house and of course the car and I wasn't there which made things look more suspicious, they interviewed my wife for some considerable time about my whereabouts which frightened her.

Anyway now with the advent of the world wide web I don't fancy Interpol having a warrant for my arrest as it now has a much bigger audience than the man with a pencil and note pad on a street corner, If I Google pictures of Dacia Duster my car is plucked out from the various forums that I have added my cars picture.

So for example if I wanted to avoid speeding tickets or I don't have any insurance, all you have to do is search for a car the same colour and make as yours and clone the plate, it will be very difficult for the APN to discover that the offender hasn't got any insurance or road tax and it will also send parking and speeding tickets somewhere else.

So for me I will keep blanking my plates.

......but wasn't Pete's point that it is infinitely more likely that your plates will be cloned on the street rather than in a forum gallery???

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......but wasn't Pete's point that it is infinitely more likely that your plates will be cloned on the street rather than in a forum gallery???

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What I find hard to believe about that story is that anyone would be stupid enough to rob a post office using a Mini Metro. I can think of better getaway cars.

Bloody amateurs!

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