Why do TV shows "fuzz out" car license plate numbers?

Question

If it is to protect privacy, why don't I spray paint mine as I drive around to protect my privacy? Why does some annonymous Joe on TV get his privacy protected but I have to hang mine out there so to speak?

Answer 1

To protect peoples privacy

Answer 2

If someone is stalking you, do not flow living house or to artwork, because then they'll understand the position you stay/artwork. when you're on a abandoned or low-populated highway, do not pull off to get the registration code numbers, because they could not bypass through and really damage you, and no individual will be round to help. i'd pull right into a police station, which could scare the stalker off. yet another selection will be to pull over on a hectic highway and reproduction down the registration code wide type and/or take a image of it.

Answer 3

Protect privacy, they have to do it. Just like how they have to ask permission to show people's faces on tv.

Answer 4

Because you can trace the owner to the plate,when you see one that isn't "fuzzed" out it's usually a fake one

Answer 5

So a creep can't track your license plate.

Answer 6

So those people wont be harrased when other people track the number down

Answer 7

so people can't duplicate them or use that license number. a person/car can be tracked down by their licence number

Answer 8

So people don't go to the DMV with a few bucks and trace who it was...

Answer 9

so u can't stalk the car owners, or steal their phat wheels