Hell yeah. Except every cop and traffic camera has the ability. So that’s gonna be alot of mapping. Probably impossible given cop cars and LEO are on the move constantly.
And there are plenty of hidden cameras as well. I know for a fact that many of the portable signs that display your speed and flash a warning if you’re over the limit are ALSO able to read license plates and immediately alert the police. They were using it to look for stolen vehicles when I became aware of the system, but that was 7 years ago and all it takes is a little tweak to suddenly have a record of every car passing by.
I’ve been considering this for a while. Nice to see it happening.
But, it needs to be categorised.
License plates. Facial recognition. Private. Government. Etc
If you want privacy and you drive a car, I got bad news for you. Public Transit is privacy.
Instead of making a whole new software why not just add number plate cameras to the osm database and make a software that pulls them out and makes it convenient to read?
Because that could easily make OSM banned in most countries?
Yeah it would be bad if that happened. Governments really hate privacy.
It’s not just about privacy. In this case it’s also about law evasion and possible hiding assistance.
that is part of privacy
