> Taking a photograph of a car with its license plate is legal. As is selling a photo you've taken, whether it has a license plate or not.
Does it have to be?
What if selling more than 1,000 license plates with location and time in any calendar year starts down a path of increasingly severe penalties proportional to the gross income gained? What are the negative ramifications that I'm missing which would be hard to solve by following how other laws work?
Example: If you exclude location but effectively have an agreement with someone else that sells corresponding location data, then you can both be found guilty with a penalty multiplier for attempting to evade the law.
We write laws against stalking individuals, and we can write laws against similar behavior towards groups.
Does it have to be?
What if selling more than 1,000 license plates with location and time in any calendar year starts down a path of increasingly severe penalties proportional to the gross income gained? What are the negative ramifications that I'm missing which would be hard to solve by following how other laws work?
Example: If you exclude location but effectively have an agreement with someone else that sells corresponding location data, then you can both be found guilty with a penalty multiplier for attempting to evade the law.
We write laws against stalking individuals, and we can write laws against similar behavior towards groups.