Wouter Bouwens wrote:It's called the GDPR, it is a regulation that applies to the entire EEA, and there was a lot of misunderstanding about what it meant, as shown by the OP.
I know what the GDPR is, I was working for a payments processing company when it came into force...
What is means is that anyone taking footage in a public area is essentially a 'data controller' wrt to the personal data recorded in it: primarily, faces & number plates.
There is a 'domestic purposes' exemption when the footage is of your home & only of your friends & family. But if you put up a security camera that watches your yard --but also-- has a view on part of the street, then you can't apply the domestic purposes exemption.
Under GDPR terms any public dissemination of personally-identifiable data without the consent of the affected parties is an infringement.
Various statements I found while looking for an actual Dutch legal statement on the matter:
In Germany it is legal to use them, and even courts allow footage as evidence, following a Federal Court case in 2016. It is however illegal to upload dash cam footage to social media unless faces and car number plates have been obscured.
France also restricts dash cams to ‘private use’ – in this case, that means that you can’t upload the footage to the internet.
Other countries where the use of dashcams is unrestricted – as long as the camera does not obstruct the driver’s view and you blur out all faces and registration numbers before publishing the footage – include Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Croatia, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
SO I dont think it's entirely accurate to say that "there isn't a problem to begin with".