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> Consider how Google's Street View wound up hiding car licence plates for a lot of places after the privacy complaints, for example. Right, isn't that just "h
by scott_karana 11y ago
> Consider how Google's Street View wound up hiding car licence plates for a lot of places after the privacy complaints, for example.
Right, isn't that just "hiding the microphone"? Google still has records of your license plates.
Can agencies subpoena them for that information? Can Google themselves use it maliciously?
The technology exists, and will be used, even if it's not accessible to the public.
How much do you trust our information oracles?
- Silhouette 11y agoYes, those are all valid concerns as well. I was just demonstrating what is technically possible, not asserting that current practice is sufficient. If Google applied that same fuzzing to its own internal copy of the images, it would not have records of everyone's licence plates any more. I don't know whether they do this today, but we could empower the official regulators to investigate such things in reasonable ways, for example by mandating greater disclosure of working practices or some sort of inspection regime for organisations processing high volumes of personal data.