Even if image=* isn’t an immediate legal problem for us, it is riskier for data consumers from a legal perspective, moreso if a data consumer does the obvious thing and embeds the image instead of linking out to it. Either way, it’s a security and performance problem for end users. And we’ve stripped any metadata or context from the image, making it all but impractical for a data consumer to insulate themselves with disclaimers or filters. So I personally put this key in the category of nice ideas that don’t work.
(Sometimes it is necessary to cite a photo as proof that something is mappable, but that’s what source=* is for.)
Previously: