piefed.nullspaceHow is The People’s Offline Privacy in The EU, Scandinavian Countries & Denmark?
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPersonI live in a neighborhood, when I walk the dogs, I care for, on public roadway & public grass areas in-front of everyone’s property, I am video recorded (without any control of my image, customers of the cams & the cams’ service providers have access to my image & there are websites broadcasting the videos submitted) by almost every single neighbor’s Cam(s) at each of their gates.
These type of privacy violation(s), that have become so everywhere in The USA, UK, China & Etc., are they problems in EU, Scandinavian Countries & Denmark?
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In Sweden there are cameras all over the place, but there is a quirk to them. If they are operated by the police, they are not allowed to continuously record you. That they are only allowed to do if you are a suspect of some kind or are in the progress of performing a crime. The time you are allowed to record a person not satisfying this is, IIRC, 7 seconds. That means for example that they cannot correlate two speed cameras (unless they’d be separated by 7 seconds). Also a police body camera must automatically drop video after 7 seconds, and is only allowed to record more if the person they are capturing starts performing a crime.
I would suspect that this will go away very soon, if it hasn’t already, as Sweden is governed by far right policies. In recent years they have approved prisons for children and being insulting to police is now a crime. Police will be able to do more and more without warrants (like stealing stuff you own if you cannot prove purchase).