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• Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m no expert, but I believe this is down to the individual member states.

  In my country (the NL) it is technically not allowed to film the public street with an automated camera, which effectively makes Ring and equivalents illegal to install.

  Practically this is not really enforced though, so you see them everywhere anyway.

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  • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s indeed not enforced here, but on top of that the police would really like to know that you have cameras filming public space.

    Not so they can do something about it, but so they know they can come to you to ask for footage if something happens.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Turn off the motion sensor and only use the push activation, that wouldn’t break the “auto” recording portion. There’s always exemptions, security and law professionals wouldn’t be left with not way to assist themselves.

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think yes, as long as it only sees within your private property.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Front yards don’t have the expectation of privacy… that applies to backyards doesn’t it?

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If your front yard is public property, you can’t constantly record it, simple.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Front yards aren’t…

        And you can’t record a public street for security? Even if it’s deleted? That makes absolutely no sense, how would you ever catch a crime?

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• bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨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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  • troed@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨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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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨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.

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      • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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