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So I had an incident once on the road where some BMW driver (it's always a BMW driver) got upset at me started tailgating me and taking pictures of the back of my car. Anyways I got kinda freaked out that the person would show up at my house when my wife and kids were there alone (along with the worthless dog), and ended up doing some research about what someone can do with your license plate. The short answer is nothing, unless they are a cop or someone with access to the DMV database. I think it's actually a fairly serious crime to look up someones information with intent to do them harm.
After all of the research, one of the things I still decided is that I will blackout my license plate when I post any pictures of my car and here's why. Maintaining the disconnect of my license plate number and any personal information about me is very important to me. Someone who just knows the plate number may not really be able to do anything with it, but they could associate it with my username. Then with my username, who knows maybe I accidentally posted some other personal information when buying something on the forum or they could contact someone I bought or sold something from/to. I agree, it's mildly paranoid, but for me it's just an extra precaution that really isn't too difficult and there really are some crazy people out there.
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