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by oh_sigh 2589 days ago
Wait - so if a person runs a red light and crashes into my car, I can't use dashcam footage from my car showing that I had a green light and the other drive ran the red light?
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You can, as long as you don't identify the driver and use the evidence only to illustrate your own action.

Crazy, isn't it? But nobody said Austrian law is sane.

If you can't identify the guilty driver how does the video footage help your case then?

No offense to anyone, I like privacy focused societies but taking it to such an extent that it ends up protecting the wrong doers is the society equivalent of selling your liver to buy a kidney.

>If you can't identify the guilty driver how does the video footage help your case then?

You can use it to prove your own actions - i.e. was safely stopped at the green light when you were smashed into by another car.