I’m curious how some automotive drivers’ developed expectations of license plates to be private. Is this some kind of sovereign citizen initiative?

From the article:

…" ‘Oh, that’s a license plate reader.’ I started seeing them all over the place and realized that they were for the police. And I didn’t like that.”

Of course they’re for the police. Why else do these drivers think License Plates exist?

The article does not mention concerns with unwarranted interstate tracking and state authority collaboration, which is a separate issue itself. DeFlock just seems to be about avoiding police surveillance of their cars entirely, which is senseless.