How to hide your license plate

Our Take

Londonlaz's video taps into a frustration a lot of us share: the feeling that your daily commute is being logged, timestamped, and sold before you even know it. We get why "how to hide your license plate" videos rack up views — Flock Safety cameras and their imitators have turned ordinary streets into 24/7 checkpoints, and plenty of drivers just want out of the database.

Here's the catch we always flag: physically obscuring, covering, or altering a plate is illegal in nearly every state, and it's the kind of violation that gives police an easy pretext for a stop — the opposite of staying under the radar. A cracked plate cover or a reflective spray doesn't dismantle the surveillance network; it just paints a target on the one car trying to opt out, while thousands of ALPR nodes keep sweeping up everyone else's plates, locations, and travel patterns.

The more durable move is knowing where these cameras actually are and organizing to get them removed or restricted — not gambling on a ticket. Check our camera map to see what's watching your route, and hit up take action for concrete steps to push back on your city council or police department before this infrastructure becomes permanent.