• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Why wouldn’t they be? Is it illegal to record people without their permission in the EU or something? Clueless American here.

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      1 day ago

      Yes, with fix mounted cameras. You can walk around and record with your phone etc though.

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      1 day ago

      You cannot permanently record public places and you may not publish recordings of people (as in them being the main content in the video) without their consent. A temporary recording or live stream should be pretty much a non-issue, especially if you don’t do anything with it other than watching it.

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        1 day ago

        By “permanently record” you mean “keep the footage forever”? Security camera systems usually record on a loop, I doubt this one will be any different. They don’t want to manage all that storage anyway.

        • Eheran@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          Permanent as in “not just for a few seconds when someone rings the bell”.