Comment by hyperman1
7 months ago
Good news:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;
That does not include security cameras: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-cctv-usi...
From that link:
Most European countries have laws for recording spaces not your own. They typically predate the GDPR by decades. AFAIK, they are not harmonized, except for a tiny bit by the GDPR.
If I understand it well, this is a big difference between the USA where you can mostly record the public space and create databases of what everyone does in public. IN Europe (even outside the EU), there is a basic expectation of privacy even in public spaces. You are allowed to make short term recordings, do journalism, and have random people accidentally wander in and out of your recording. Explicitly targetting specific people or long-term recording is somewhere between frowned upon to flat out illegal.