[OSM-Photos] don't destroy useful data!

[Paul Johnson]

Lauri Kytömaa wrote:

>> Is this really necessary?  How many countries consider you to have a
>> right to privacy in plain sight?
>
> While in most countries it may be, and is, virtually always legal to take 
> pictures of people in public spaces, using them outside of "personal use" 
> has limitations. A collection of such pictures of persons makes up a 
> database of personally identifiable information and at least in most(?) EU 
> countries collecting such a database requires a justifiable reason.

Wow, that's more retarded than the US's HIPAA laws, which severely
complicated healthcare access and the ability to share records between
healthcare professionals all so some senator could hide the fact he had,
at an earlier and less fortunate time in his life, used Medicare...