To be clear, I don’t consider vehicle registration plates, or even VINs, to be PII. If someone wanted to hunt me down with nefarious intent, a simple white pages search would probably be sufficient. This is also my personal blog, not a Reddit post, so very little hostility lies herein. Ergo, I don’t take any pains to block these things out of my pictures. Besides which, chances are that if I anger someone with my vehicle, it’s going to be while driving, in which case the offendee would be able to see it anyway.
Why the disclaimer? Because I wanted to post my vanity plates:
New Blue‘s plate has arrived, so it’s official!
Is it elitist to agree to an additional $50/year charge for these? Maybe. But it’s a reasonable cost for minor self-gratification. In the end, it’s the little things.
–Simon