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Why not? What's the fundamental difference between this and a CCTV camera in a gas station?

• hyperman1 5y ago
  In the EU, there is an expectation of privacy in public spaces. The gas station CCTV is only allowed to film private property, and maybe a tiny slitter of public space if there is no alternative. Most countries also require registration of cameras to a governemental agency and warning/consent of the people being filmed. That's at least the theory.
  • detaro 5y ago
    There's lots of nuance though. CCTV that just records all the time is not the same as someone recording because of a specific incident. And then you get things like rules for dashcams that allow dashcams to keep an e.g. 30s buffer that gets saved on button press or if a crash is detected, ...
• number6 5y ago
  There has to be a sign at the gas station that shows that this area is filmed (at least in Europe). The sign has to tell you who is responsible and why you are filmed. On this basis you can refuse to enter the area. The fundamental difference is that you can at least in principle choose not to go into an area where you are filmed and know it beforehand while the other person's did not know that they are filmed. I guess they wouldn't have texted while driving in this case. They assumed privacy in their own car and on their phone.