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If you're in the EU it does not. You can record anything you want in the privacy of your home but if you record other people, they need to consent to it. The reasoning described in the article "but there's a camera in the picture of the room so you agreed to it" certainly wouldn't hold up under any interpretation of the GDPR.

Also even if it's your home, if you rent it out, that's a commercial activity even if it's your personal residence.

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Also, if you have a clearly visible camera, I as a guest would cover it up the second I see it, and uncover it when I move out. I realize not everyone wants to adapt their home by tearing down theeir own cameras but they can power them down and have a post it note next to it saying "this is part of my alarm system but it's disconnected when AirBnB guests stay here, feel free to put this note note over the lens if you like /host".

If you have a hidden camera and someone found it, the reviews wouldn't be good for business.

I live in the EU (Sweden) and here it's definately legal to record a video of someone in your own apartment. With or without their consent.

I doubt the latter part is entirely true, especially post-GDPR. Privacy law always depends on the balance between legitimate interest and personal rights.

Also this article from 2013 seems to indicate that while it was legal to film people in private at some point that already changed before the GDPR: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2040434/secretly-shooting-vi...

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