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Comment by jackweirdy | Hacker News Reader

Privacy is a fundamental right of EU residents (it’s in the fundamental charter)

It's Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...

Yep, my operator isn't allowed to give out any information without my written consent. And you actually have to OPT IN for the phonebook service. Most people don't.

And the sky hasn't fallen, my service is quite good and the telcos are still making profits.

Thing is,the US Constitution as brilliant as it is was written a long time ago and nobody wants to update it. And Capitol Hill seems preoccupied.

Don't want to remind the states that they have the option, they might vote in term limits or remove money from politics.

Which is why every European country except Germany has dozens of cameras on every corner?

Those corners would be public spaces, right?

You have a messed-up idea of privacy, there can be various degrees of it and having a few people see you in a certain place at a certain time has a slightly different impact than having someone (potentially) analyze what you do in a large amount of your life, even if that happens in "public spaces".

I know your idea is the same as that of the USA law, but that really doesn't make it right

This is simply false

But (at least in most countries) these records are only available to police and with written request, one by one basis.

or to anyone connected to the internet

You can't leave unprotected access by law, because you, as a camera owner, are responsible for personal information stored as a record. If you talking about hacking, I wouldn't worry too much -- anything can be hacked and there are much more cost effective ways to obtain personal information in millions than hacking cameras one-by-one.

You can't leave unprotected access by law

Yeah, nice theory :)

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I wouldn't worry/care about individual hackers, but even if you have complete trust in everyone who has or will have legal access there are a lot of organizations for which hacking cameras one-by-one (even if hacking is actually needed) is well worth the effort.

Do you have any substantiation of "except Germany"?

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