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techpop10·

Which is why every European country except Germany has dozens of cameras on every corner?

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But (at least in most countries) these records are only available to police and with written request, one by one basis.

or to anyone connected to the internet

You can't leave unprotected access by law, because you, as a camera owner, are responsible for personal information stored as a record. If you talking about hacking, I wouldn't worry too much -- anything can be hacked and there are much more cost effective ways to obtain personal information in millions than hacking cameras one-by-one.

You can't leave unprotected access by law

Yeah, nice theory :)

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I wouldn't worry/care about individual hackers, but even if you have complete trust in everyone who has or will have legal access there are a lot of organizations for which hacking cameras one-by-one (even if hacking is actually needed) is well worth the effort.

This is simply false

Do you have any substantiation of "except Germany"?

Those corners would be public spaces, right?

You have a messed-up idea of privacy, there can be various degrees of it and having a few people see you in a certain place at a certain time has a slightly different impact than having someone (potentially) analyze what you do in a large amount of your life, even if that happens in "public spaces".

I know your idea is the same as that of the USA law, but that really doesn't make it right

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