Q: Is it legal for the news media to show a video of my car's license plate in an unrelated car theft report?
A stolen car was recovered in our cul de sac. The news media covered the story. They interviewed the owner of the car and videoed the driver leaving the cul de sac, the video zoomed in on our car parked in our drive and exposed the license plate numbers clearly. Is this an infringement on my privacy? We were no way involved in the crime except living in the neighborhood where the the stolen car was recovered.
A: If your license plate was in plain view from a public location, then your privacy rights were not violated. If you haven't done so already, you should notify the media company of its representative's offensive, boorish conduct.
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