> Can shop owners in Germany not have surveillance cameras in their buildings? Unless you walk into the grocery store with a mask, you would then be on video a

> Can shop owners in Germany not have surveillance cameras in their buildings? Unless you walk into the grocery store with a mask, you would then be on video and identifiable in some way. They can, but you have to be informed of that fact. The business may only use the recordings to investigate a crime, it may not use it for anything else, and they have to be erased after a certain amount of time.