So the very first assertion the article makes is that this creates a giant database of sensitive information (presumably the license plates).

That’s just straight up not true? How can you write an article about this and make such a basic wrong assertion.

Any reasonable system would work as such: Scan plate -> is it allowed to be here? -> if noy store violation, if yes don’t send data

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It seems like they really do be scanning every single license plate and storing it for no reason.

So that’s an absolute lie, I run synapse + WhatsApp bridge with 500MiB. Dendrite is supposed to be more efficient

Yup, they serve ads and they “need” the information for that

Consent does indeed have to be given, not assumed. But “legitimate interest” cookies do not need consent

I don’t think it will ever come to a lawsuit, nobody would ever want that. Under the GDPR you must be able to delete content, and the server must communicate this to all federated servers. So in effect, there is already a legally binding agreement between all servers that this deletion request must be honored (for people physically in the eu), it’s just not.

lemmy servers are already breaking the GDPR if they don’t follow forwarded deletion requests from people in the eu. This would just effectively be an extension of this to data from all people.

There could be a legally binding contract stating that any deletion request must be forwarded to all parties it was send to, and that upon receiving such a request the data must be deleted. I do not think this would be unreasonable to ask to servers, especially as this deletion receipt could be fully automated.

I drew the arrow one way, just because you want to invert the arrow doesn’t mean it’s correct 🤷

Thats not how economics works, if the cost of a product goes up one way or another, the price goes up, one way or another

I mean, the dilivery company will have to pay for the damages. It’s just scratches, probably a conversation starter of someone sees it haha

Every car maker did, VW took the blame but the whole industry was lying

I can really appreciate the performance is (should) be the same, makes a lot of sense