Doesn't have to be. Here in the Netherlands it's actually illegal to (permanently) film public space, and people can and will point that out to any offenders.

Same in Germany. Putting something like a Ring camera up is a big no-no.

They are everywhere. Knowing the old “Germany is the land of privacy” I was shocked to walk about in many neighborhoods, from pretty run down to affluent, and see Ring, Nest, Arlo, all cloud connected cameras hanging over doors but turned more towards the public road in front of the house.

That seems impossible to actually enforce.

With many exceptions of course.

There's permanent cameras pointed at the street in the red light district in Amsterdam, along with warning signs saying that photographing the women in the windows is illegal.

How can that actually be enforced?

I think it’s only fair the citizens are allowed to record if the government does it en mass

And then what?

It could reduce crime and also could be used by evil people to do evil things.

Unless the world becomes full of people that vandalize cameras on short notice, or countries that criminalize those cameras.