In this case, it might not involve the surveillance company selling anything. All an insurance adjuster has to do is knock on doors in the area and ask the home owners if they are willing to share any video footage they have.
And yes, people do this all the time. I work in this industry.
I really hate to stand on the side of the data hoarding conglomerates, but there’s a significant chance they were not involved in the release of that video.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Just to be clear in most places it’s not legal to have a video camera pointed at the street (or your neighbors’ houses). Not that this has been enforced at all. But if somebody wanted to pursue you legally for that they could.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
What places?
Usually it’s a misinterpretation of the law, theyres not meant to interfere with security and law enforcement. There’s always exceptions, usually in hoot they trigger or store the data. If it’s automatically wiped, usually no laws have been broken for example.
boomzilla@programming.dev 2 days ago
Don’t know about most places but regarding Germany, OP is correct. It’s verboten to film property of neighbours, public places or places shared with neighbours with your statically installed surveillance camera. You have to get consent of filming neighbours and you have to put up signs informing persons like delivery drivers that they’re getting filmed. That’s what my short search resulted in.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Where I live for instance. Like I said it isn’t enforced.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
What country? I’m sure there’s exceptions that you don’t know about, the laws don’t disallow their use, it’s in how the data is stored normally.