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Open Records Laws Reveal Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs) Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees. (www.eff.org)
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EFF is alarmed by recent laws in several states that have blocked public access to data collected by ALPRs, including, in some cases, information derived from ALPR data. We do not support pending bills in Arizona and Connecticut that would block the public oversight capabilities that ALPR information offers.

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[โ€“] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I can confirm this guide is accurate and very straightforward on the OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons side. Unless I'm missing something, I think "Make sure you publish the image under a CCO Waiver license" is an overcorrection. You're just linking to it on OSM, so the Open Database License shouldn't factor in. I speculate that line is an opinionated one and not related to a technical hurdle for using the image on OSM. CC0 could theoretically be better depending on how downstream users want to use it for e.g. activism โ€“ that is, if they want to download the image from Commons and redistribute it. I just don't know what context that would happen in.