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by KingMachiavelli 2554 days ago
A was curious about the dashcam fine so I looked it up and it seems some vary ordinary usages of cameras are violating GDPR:

> It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal. Two people were reprimanded for using surveillance cameras for their own home without permission.

I assume "driver's point of view" means looking out of the front windshield? Is this not how dash cams are meant to be used? (On second though perhaps this is a translation issue... the article was in German). And then I assume the surveillance cameras were mounted outside and recorded people in public?

Both of the possible scenarios here seem pretty benign and ordinary by US standards.