• BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    License plates are not private, they are literally unobscured so everyone can see them. Why do people censor them out?

    • Ignacio@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It seems that it’s an European country, and here privacy laws are more strict regarding to licence plates on pictures. It’s wiser to censor them.

      EDIT: here is an article about the topic (in Spanish).

      • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io
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        1 year ago

        And IIRC, license plates only need to be censored if bad behavior is demonstrated. Notice that the car to the left which was correctly parked has an exposed license plate.

        What baffles me is that the plate number is only meaningful to law enforcement. The public does not get access to the records associated with a plate number. I see no reason to hide the info from law enforcement. The evidence may be too low of a standard to be usable, but so be it.

        • erAck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          A jealous partner seeing the car where it shouldn’t had been is enough, isn’t it? Or the boss where the worker should had been elsewhere, or… Inhabitants of small districts also don’t need a license plate database to know.