I take lots of photos (guessing most of you know that by now :-) and seldom concern myself about a license plate. I find faces to be much more of a grey area, what with the facial recognition software that's commonplace (flickr, picasa, you name it). In both cases I apply a simple bit of common sense: 1. if it's a stranger and not in a crowd (or campout) I'll ask permission in a casual way if I can 2. if I intend to do anything "formal" with it, including selling it or using it for promotional material, I get clear and explicit permission As for risk, on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) I'd put it below 1. Regards, Peter Kraiker nextchapter.kraikerphoto.com Toronto, ON, Canada '82 L Westfalia 1.9 TD 5 Spd (Babe)
On 2012-07-27, at 11:52 AM, Roland <syncronicity1@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Is this really a risk? Can somebody use this info in a bad way? Is it a > security or privacy issue really? And how would somebody use this info or > do something with it? I really cannot think of how some bad guy would do > something with the info. I guess if someone worked at the DMV they could > look up my address (and get arrested), but so what, you can do that in > other ways. |
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