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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by kuschku on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @07:43AM (#15071421)
Depends on where you live. In Germany any CCTV recording of a public place is automatically illegal. There’s a handful of exceptions (for example, for the parliament), but generally, this holds true.

Opt-in is what’s legally required, and should be the default.

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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by alexro on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:19AM (#15072632)
How can all the people passing before the camera to opt in?
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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by moron4hire on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:30AM (#15072737)
That's rather much the point, they can't. Therefore the service would be illegal in Germany.

Sometimes things are illegal and you can't get around it. Just because the company spent a lot of effort on it doesn't mean anything.

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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by garrettlangley on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:48PM (#15075306)
Alexro, there are clear and large signs about the cameras at the entrance to our neighborhoods.

Our neighborhoods are not large public roads, they are typically 100-400 home communities. You would never have to enter the community.

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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by kuschku on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:29AM (#15072727)
Exactly. That’s why you don’t put up cameras in the first place.
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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by Danihan on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:08PM (#15073760)
So only the government can record what's happening, and if private citizens or companies do so they are shamed and jailed?
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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by kuschku on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:48PM (#15074157)
The government can’t do that either, they’s the point (except for a handful of rare exceptions).

The police can’t even film protests to identify protestors.

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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by Danihan on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:05PM (#15074324)
You're saying the German government has no video cameras on any traffic intersections / public areas period?
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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by kuschku on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:59PM (#15074876)
Unless there is a specific situation that there is a threat there, and a warrant for that situation, no.

For traffic situations there are specialized systems that open a physical filter in front of a camera lens only if someone is detected to be speeding, and the camera is then limited to that lane, for that short moment.

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