Thanks for all the comments. Very interesting responses. I spent 30 years in the US Army and what privacy I once had disappeared the first time the medics did a short-arm inspection in the barracks. On the other hand, privacy is something to be cherished and if one does not want to be overt then he or she should be afforded all opportunities to become covert. Some 30 years ago I had a family member who absolutely refused to give his social security number to anyone, including his employer and forced, by way of a law suit, his bank to issue him a special customer number. I thought at the time he was a leftie wack-job. But times have certainly proven us wrong about our Tax Payer Identification Number (f/k/a "SSN"), n'cest pa? Of course at that time he WAS a leftie nut-job, but in retrospect he knew what he was about before a lot of people understood the danger of a number linking all of your life data together. I am a Ham Operator of some 50 years standing and have Ham Plates on one of my vehicles ("The War Wagon" -- a gas guzzling Nissan Pathfinder of 1992 vintage that barely gets 14 miles to the gallon and is festooned with antennas and radio equipment). Of course, anyone who wishes to find my call sign only has to search the FCC data base and they will know who I am and where I live. Such is the plague of some aspects of our society. Same thing goes for The Time of Troubles, Trial and Tribulation when "They" will come to take my guns from my cold, dead hands ... all they have to do is look at the database of people with Concealed Carry Permits in my state and they will know right where to come for me and my arsenal.
Anyway, I'll be putting Vietnam Veteran Plates on the Leaf; I have Ham plates on the Pathfinder and Purple Heart plates on the Porsche 928.
Regards to our interesting group, and BTW in the wisdom of my years, I'm also one of those Lefties now -- mostly.
Dave