[OSM-talk] Face and license blurring (GDPR territories)

[Simon Poole]

Am 07.10.2020 um 01:13 schrieb Niels Elgaard Larsen:
> ...
> You will probably have to let users add and remove blurs.
> That is what Mapillary do.
>
They do not, they stopped providing that facility literally years ago, 
and they've gone as far as no longer storing unblurred images even for a 
limited time now.

The other important point to understand is that there is no reason to 
believe that face and licence plate blurring is sufficient to avoid 
trouble in countries with strict data protection regulation as long as 
people and vehicles can be identified and behaviour associated with 
individuals can be deduced from the images (with other words blurring 
would have to be far more complete to be on the safe side). There is 
simply no case law, because there have been, afaik, no cases that have 
actually gone to court.

tl;dr version you need to make your own risk assessment (and ask your 
own counsel).

Simon

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