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Google shared some of their oddities in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsr3Fzi5clw (Including a lady in a motorized wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom?)

Legally, if you can see it from a car on a public road their is minimal expectations of privacy.




Depends on your legislation. In Germany you would violate the rights of third parties by filming the road with intentions of sharing it with other third parties while not also making the former third parties unrecognizable (black bar)


I doubt that applies to Moderate resolution LIDAR images which provide ~20 or fewer data points about someones face. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*vrB0Jrbt4Sjhkw2g_... Might allow you to detect a long beard or very large hat, but don't allow for identification without other evidence.


These questions will get very interesting when self-driving car manufacturers try to enter markets outside the US. It is highly desirable to have local training data, but any large enough effort to collect that data looks indistinguishable from mass surveillance. In Western Continental Europe this is bound to conflict with their expectation of privacy in public spaces. Meanwhile Russia and China might not be so thrilled about the USA having LIDAR scans of their entire country




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