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> taboo on taking photo Do Germans complain/rage every time they see a security camera?
by ulnarkressty 16d ago
> taboo on taking photo
Do Germans complain/rage every time they see a security camera?
- krzyk 16d agoSee how StreetView looks like there (or looked), they have trouble being photographed.
- mitxela 15d agoSecurity cameras are illegal by default in Germany. Having one is a crime punishable by jail time, if you aren't careful to follow the rules.
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- ishouldnotbutk8 16d agoWasn't Germany the original country that forced google maps to censor all houses unless they opt-IN? And faces, and driving plates. I think they are quite privacy conscious, as a country.
- krzyk 16d agoAnd quite averse/backwater (choose your version) on using debit/credit cards. Which is mindblowing from my Easter European perspective. I didn't use cash in a decade.
- account42 16d agoUnfortunately that's much less the case since COVID. Not looking forward to have more and more placed that only take panopticon-payments.
- pimeys 16d agoThat has pretty much changed now. I rarely use cash in Berlin. About 2-3 years already...
- aleph_minus_one 16d agoBerlin is very different from the rest of Germany.
- ahartmetz 16d agoBut not how you think, in this instance. I think Berlin has more places of questionable legality which require cash for presumably tax avoidance reasons.
- em-bee 16d agogermany had bank transfers as the norm when the US still fiddled around with paper cheques.
- looperhacks 16d agoGoogle Streetview isn't opt-in, it's opt-out. But it was used so much that Google simply gave up for a while. Blurring faces (and I assume license plates) was a thing before they started serving imagery for Germany
- Schlagbohrer 16d agoThey don't see security cameras because there are very, very few in Germany and the few that exist are in train stations, or private areas like INSIDE a business, or INSIDE a private estate, pointing inwards since they're seldom allowed to film outwards
- pimeys 16d agoAnd there is a big warning if there is a security camera around. And they get destroyed pretty often. Source: living in Berlin.
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- namero999 16d agoYes. Datapoint: the underground garage of the complex where I used to live experienced a large number of thefts (including my motorbike), and in 6 years we never managed to install security cameras because you need unanimity for this, and there's always someone who is concerned about their privacy.