ALPR databases are anti-privacy and anti-public, and all efforts to sabotage the police state are praiseworthy.
That said, I was sanitizing my data fields in 1985 (partly because we expected users to try to cause interrupts), so its worrysome they don't do it now.
To be fair, I'm not vigilant about screening my manufacturing feeds in Satisfactory.
The UK government runs on Windows 98 (they've modified it over the years to the point that updating would break everything) and I believe the NHS runs on XP.