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That's happened to me too. One girl saw me take a picture of her car in an apartment complex (I can't remember what it was anymore as this was years ago), she came up to me, fully-tatted and looked like she just got out of bed, insisted I was working for the government and demanded that I delete the picture.
I've been a lot more careful about taking pics of cars ever since.
It's a question of dexterity, experience and training. You can excercise it.
As we licence plate freaks do have this problem more often than car spotter and photographers, it's recommended to train taking photos quickly and offhanded in passing.
Before I traveled to Northkorea, where there are restrictions about photographing, I trained that more intensively.
Thanks to the modern digital photography it's much easier than back in the analog times.