I'm a privacy freak and life is getting harder and harder for us privacy freaks. If I take my VX in to get it serviced, most of the shops want to look it up by VIN or even tag number to get part specs and the services they use to look that stuff up are surely collecting all that data and 'monetizing' it by selling it to god knows who. I'd like to be able to give them a VIN of the same model and year that they can use *instead* of my VIN.
So to that end, I'm looking for VINs of dead 2001 VXs. Alternatively, if anyone wants to help confuse the system, I'd be willing to 'trade' VINs with like-minded privacy freaks, you use my VIN and I use your VIN. Ideally there would be a pool of VINs so it wouldn't be 1:1.
I realize this sounds like tin-foil hat stuff. Unfortunately, its the reality behind all the slick internet services we use. Facebook is worth like 40 billion dollars based solely on their ability to data-mine all our info, and there are 100s more such companies doing the same thing that most of us have never heard of.