The beauty of living, if you call it that, in Canada is that you can be totally anonymous in public. Normally you don't tell total strangers where you live because it's just the safe way to go.
But the city is doing their best to betray that effort to maintain privacy.
Let's say some creepy cretin sees you driving around town in your vehicle and he somehow takes a highly unhealthy interest in you. Perhaps you don't want this pervert / psycho / loanshark or other potential aggressor knowing precisely where you sleep at night.
That person couldn't find out your whereabouts based on your license plate but there is another way.
The number written on your resident parking sticker tells prospective enemies almost precisely where you live. It wouldn't take a whole lot of research to figure that 79 is in a certain small area of lower NDG and 03 is in Old Montreal on Notre Dame East.
Or you could just pay a cop a couple bucks to run the guys plate. They do that you know.
ReplyDelete" It wouldn't take a whole lot of research to figure that 79 is in a certain small area of lower NDG and 03 is in Old Montreal "
ReplyDeletethen all you have to do is check out 2500 people and you're all set.
Why not get us excited about real privacy infringements?
With all my years of living downtown I have never heard such a thing.
ReplyDeleteEither nobody ever realized it or really no one is nervous about that!