Gardaí to allow the public upload Dash Cam footage from approx. 2026 via online portal

ARX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122222135#Comment_122222135

Maybe I should tell the Old Bill An Garda Síochána that they're not in the UK.

CramCycle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122221668#Comment_122221668

For your own sake, I would get one as even if you do nothing but have it their passively recording, it means that if someone does something stupid in front of you causing a collision involving you, the they said / you said which can drag out disappears. I rarely report stuff from my dashcam but there have been some close calls, which I am just a statistic that they didn't hit me. I might report a small bit more if the portal goes up but I won't be adding any great effort into it. I simply don't have the time but even if the added fear is there that someone might get reported is a huge benefit in my mind, there is no concern out there at the minute. If I was to point out I had a dashcam, they are as likely to punch me as they are to walk away. I have one for cycling as well but its a bit like house insurance, it is not for the small things, I don't upload to youtube and I don't report to the Gardai for the small things because it is just not worth the time or effort. It is there for the time that a life altering injury occurs, that I have the proof of what happened.

Xpro

I can see so many implications in this, breaches of privacy, gdpr, recording and submitting without consent. People aren’t the gards and its not their job. If garda want to implement this system, then they better get the finger out.
Irish drivers are a feking disaster anyway. Hogging fast lanes, driving under the speed limit only causing more danger by people getting annoyed and then undertaking, swapping lanes. This is one thing it should be fixed asap. In any other country this just doesn’t happen, but morons here say well im driving the speed limit and F everyone else.
Then you have useless garda doing nothing when it comes to crime. Road policing and fines its the easiest option for them, and now the citizens can do their work and snitch. World is falling apart.

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122222758#Comment_122222758

breaches of privacy,

You have no privacy when in a public place

gdpr,

This is allowed under GDPR FFS 🙄

recording and submitting without consent

You think you need consent from someone you think may be breaking the law before you can report them? Are you serious?

magicbastarder

if people want privacy when driving, they shouldn't be driving on public roads.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122222135#Comment_122222135

The facts are that reporting an offence is not policing or busting. It is just reporting - same as reporting a burglary or reporting an assault. What is it about traffic crimes that makes you think they shouldn't be reported?
It wouldn't be, by any chance, and this is a long shot, that you routinely break the speed limit or use your phone at the wheel, would it?

Xpro

I think you need to make your self familiar with GDPR and how it works. You might be recording in public fine, but when it comes to identifying and submitting such data then come the implications as now you become a data processor. This will be a very complex issue and solicitors will have a field day.
All the info can be found online.

Xpro

I think you need to make your self familiar with GDPR and how it works. You might be recording in public fine, but when it comes to identifying and submitting such data then come the implications as now you become a data processor. This will be a very complex issue and solicitors will have a field day. 
All the info can be found online.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122235017#Comment_122235017

When you looked at the info online, did you miss the household exemption for GDPR?

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122235018#Comment_122235018

There is absolutely no GDPR issue in giving a recording of a potential offence to the gardai. The amount of sh1te some people come out with when it comes to GDPR is unreal!