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Old 03-05-2019, 11:25 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by thstone View Post

It's not too hard to find the address where the car is registered using a plate number. In many states, car registration/traffic citations/lawsuits/insurance claims/etc are public. Websites crawl these databases and then sell the search results.

I work in TV news, and trust me, if we could get that info easily, we would. But I haven't lived in a state yet (and I've worked from the East coast to the Rockies) where you could get that info if you weren't a cop.
The whole thing is just silly.
As someone else noted, there's more in the metadata that's easily discovered.
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