• jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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      Well, would be better if you could submit it anonymously.

      we need an (optional) open source app for that where you just open the app and take a picture (with license plate visible) and click “submit”. It submits the time, location, and photo. If it takes more than 30 seconds to report this, they failed.

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        People here have developed an app that makes it that easy to submit (the app essentially composes the email for you). However, without your full name and tax ID number nothing will happen from the police. As has been pointed out, the system is open to abuse if it became anonymous.

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          I see no abuse that can’t extremely easily be managed. The NSA has been able to use image recognition for dicks since they wiretapped all of Yahoo Video like 20 years ago.

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            Police are inherently lazy, and incompetent. They should be the ones on the street citing these vehicles in the first place. But instead they rely on citizens to do their job for them. Even then they spend 6-9 months to take action. Good luck training them on American NSA penis detection software!

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              Police dont design it. Its done by the software, which is written by software engineers.

              We dont need the NSA. Nude detections is like a Python module now.

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            They would need to verify each seemingly correct photo to legitimacy be illegal. I assume if it’s not you may be fined. (It might be after a certain number of failures or something to not punish mistakes.) If it’s anonymous there is no method available to punish abuse, so the system can easily be clogged.

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        Actually, I spent an inordinate amount of time building exactly this in my head for most of the day following these photos. There are two major obstacles that I can think of:

        1. Abuse. You will very likely get random dick pics and other terrible stuff sent to such a system. I suppose you could fight this by requiring registration with some id or something, but that’s its own can of worms.
        2. I don’t know how common it is to have GPS enabled by default on people’s cameras. On top of that, even though I have it enabled on my phone, 1 of the 3 photos taken that day had grossly inaccurate GPS attached to it, so now I’d be looking at building some sort of friendly UI to allow people to fix the GPS from their photos.

        The server-side stuff is easy (at least for someone with my background) but the front-end is sufficiently complicated that I couldn’t do a good job on my own.

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          1. dick pics are inevitable and trivial to filter out.

          2. The system should absolutely have graceful fallback. If GPS is off, just prompt the user for the location

          Even if GPS is innacurate and 20% of reports have to be trashed, just by making it easier to submit you’ll have far more reports in general that its still better to have an easy system that sometimes doesn’t work than a hard system that very few people use and always works.