{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edent/openbenches/issues/145","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edent/openbenches","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edent/openbenches/issues/145/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edent/openbenches/issues/145/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edent/openbenches/issues/145/events","html_url":"https://github.com/edent/openbenches/issues/145","id":305732945,"number":145,"title":"Should vehicle number plates be blurred?","user":{"login":"arizonagroovejet","id":29510692,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/29510692?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet","html_url":"https://github.com/arizonagroovejet","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arizonagroovejet/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2018-03-15T21:54:54Z","updated_at":"2018-05-08T20:02:42Z","closed_at":"2018-05-08T20:02:42Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"Some photos contain clearly readable vehicle plates. E.g. https://openbenches.org/bench/4491. OpenBenches contains a public record that will exist indefinitely of exactly where that car was at 10:03 on 2018-02-24 without consent of the car's owner (assuming it doesn't belong to the uploader). Are visible plates OK legally, regardless of where in the world a photo was taken, whether the vehicle is on private or public land, whether the photographer was standing on public or private land? Is it OK, I'm not sure what the word is, ethically? If OpenBenches was contacted by someone objecting to visibility of a vehicle plate in a photo, what would your response be?\r\n\r\nObviously if you park your vehicle anywhere in public anyone who happens to be in the same place at the same time can see it. But there's a difference between that and there being a photo on the Internet forever which shows your vehicle, clearly identifiable, with date, time, latitude, longitude.\r\n\r\nThe Interweb has lots of people's opinions on whether visible plates are OK legally, but I can't find anything substantive. I'm thinking there's probably a reason Google went to the surely quite considerable effort of blurring out plates in Street View other than they thought it would be a nice thing to do.\r\n\r\nOut of curiosity I fed the photo with the number plate visible from bench 4491 to https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr It found nothing. I fed it cropped version of the photo that contained little more than the car and it identified most of the plate. (It's not obvious, but the -j option causes output to include coordinates.)"}}
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