Nifty thing

Unless you are an habitual speeder...

http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/roadhawk-rh1-drive-camera.htm

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

Oooh, oooh, nice.

 

Save your centimes: these would be illegal in France.

D.

 

Why?

 

Filming people in France is subject to prefectorial authorisation. Unlike
the UK, you can't just fire up a webcam pointing at the street in front of
your house.

Also, a camera in the front of the windscreen would capture registration
numbers, which are what's called 'nominative' data, i.e. they can be used
to identify someone. This could _conceivably_ be termed an infringement on
someone's private life. The fact that the numbers are visible in public
anyway, wouldn't be a defence. I was filmed without my knowledge in class,
kicking a girl out (figuratively), and the video found its way onto
YouTube. I successfully had it removed, as YouTube France (and the little
bitch who filmed me) would have been penally responsible otherwise.

When I did Solaris shit for the City of Paris, we had one particularly
nasty DOS attempt, and I got the IPs and contacted the police. They
refused to let me forward the IPs, as these too were 'nominative data',
and thus could not lawfully be transmitted to a third party without a
request from an instructing magistrate, or an OPJ in case of flagrant
délit.

Disclaimer: the IP stuff happened in 2000, and so the brave new, post-11/9
world (_cf_ the 'Loi sur la Sécurité Intérieure') may have changed that.

 

So they're not illegal to have in France then?

 

Ah, so we're splitting hairs then? Fair enough. No, they're not illegal
to buy. But you couldn't use one in your car.

Better?

 

How long before someone comes up with an iPhone app that does the same,
for lots less dosh?

 

[...]

Just curious, are you a lawyer specialising in French law?

This proves that you can't disseminate videos. Not that you can't make
them.

Generally, the way filming and photography law works in most EU countries
is that you can film and make photos of anybody accessible to the public,
but you can't PUBLISH them. There is a distinction here that I think is
eluding you.

So, it would be perfectly OK to make a movie from a helmet camera or an
on-board camera, as long as you don't publish the movie. However, using
it in a legal proceedings would be OK. Which is all it's needed for.

Also, interestingly enough
and other movies made in France using vehicle mounted cameras have not
been removed from youtube.fr

 

Not a big market for camcorders either in France then I guess. Tourists
must be being arrested in droves.

<destroys camcorder video shot by SWMBO through windscreen of sidecar in
2002 in case les flicks find out>

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No. I'm French, that's all.

 

Uh-huh. An Irish-Scot living in Israel.

 

and that automatically qualifies you to know all of French and EU law
how, exactly?

PS: Why are you here?

 

And so it begins.
Fortunately, it is in the nature of things that pop in, that they
usually pop out again.
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[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

HTH, HAND.

 

Not at all. But there's a difference between filming your family, and
walking along the street deliberately filming people. You'll note that in
TV documentaries &c., passersby usually have their faces 'pixellated'.

Doing something prima facie 'illegal' isn't always the same thing as having
your collar felt for it.

Puisque tu lis le français ...

<http://www.wasatis.com/spip/spip.php?article81>

PS on dit "les flics"..

 

Have you stopped beating your wife?

 

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:02:34 +0100, The Older Gentleman

[...]

There's a Windows Mobile app that does streaming video and GPS position
upload:

http://www.ditii.com/2008/09/11/liv...ation-together-with-gps-enabled-mobile-video/

 

No. Now answer the question.

 

Pffft. Windows mobile is *so* 2009.