I do not get the issue. If somebody finds an image of a car you own or used to own, how have you been violated?
The folks who know about you are not the 'thieves and scammers,' but the corporations - you can go to some of the more public ones like Rapleaf and opt out
TowerData, Formerly Rapleaf.com
But retailers (through data triangulators like Rapleaf) have an average of 1500 points of data on everyone active on the Internet. Presume the NSA has all that and more.