I think we are getting closer to a dashcam ban in Germany...
A woman in Germany has to pay €150 and her evidence is not recognised by court because she was recording a public road in her parked car with a dashcam.
A 52 year old woman installed a front/rear facing dashcam in her car to protect it from hit and run accidents. The dashcam worked as expected and recorded a car that bumped hers and left the scene. After handing in the footage to the local police, she got a fine which she rejected because there where no identifiable faces/people inside - only useful information was the anonymous license plate.
So she took the case to court (Amtsgericht München) and lost again: The right of informational self-determination of the unknowingly recorded people (their cars in this case) outweighs the interests of a single person (the woman with the damaged car). The judge also said: "It is intolerable that 80 million citizens record random situations just to be able to maybe solve a crime"
The judgement is not final, yet.
The quoted sentence above has also been said by a police officer who randomly checked my license and saw my dashcams afterwards. I think Germany takes privacy way too serious, but thats just my two cents.
Source: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/mel...se-wegen-Dashcam-Einsatz-im-Auto-3848679.html
A woman in Germany has to pay €150 and her evidence is not recognised by court because she was recording a public road in her parked car with a dashcam.
A 52 year old woman installed a front/rear facing dashcam in her car to protect it from hit and run accidents. The dashcam worked as expected and recorded a car that bumped hers and left the scene. After handing in the footage to the local police, she got a fine which she rejected because there where no identifiable faces/people inside - only useful information was the anonymous license plate.
So she took the case to court (Amtsgericht München) and lost again: The right of informational self-determination of the unknowingly recorded people (their cars in this case) outweighs the interests of a single person (the woman with the damaged car). The judge also said: "It is intolerable that 80 million citizens record random situations just to be able to maybe solve a crime"
The judgement is not final, yet.
The quoted sentence above has also been said by a police officer who randomly checked my license and saw my dashcams afterwards. I think Germany takes privacy way too serious, but thats just my two cents.
Source: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/mel...se-wegen-Dashcam-Einsatz-im-Auto-3848679.html