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<i>If you fear that the government will track your movements, then keep that license plate off your car, etc. IOW this fear is really a strawman. For if a NID threatened such a liberty, welll then, that liberty was long gone many decades ago. IOW that fear is not justified.
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Even though it's theoretically illegal for me to poke you in the arm really hard, I could probably do so without being arrested or charged with any crime.
Therefore, I should be permitted to poke you in the eye really hard.
Even though it's theoretically illegal for a government to "track" you via your license plate -- because that constitutes prior restraint, restriction on travel, and cuts into about a hundred other natural rights -- the constitutionality of many laws has never been tried in court.
So using the fact that a govt could theoretically "track" you via your license plate is irrelevant to the NID discussion, except that what's illegal, immoral and unconstitutional to do with a license number would also be illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional to do with a NID system.
I'm sure most of us know of a case where someone "knew somebody" and used their license information to gather further details on them. I consider such acts immoral, unconstitutional, and very probably illegal. I would expect that such information would be inadmissible in court. However, that doesn't stop it from happening.
Luckily most such occurences are about as harmful as a poke in the arm. Let's keep it at that level, shall we?
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