British Man Videoing Garda Stations

Private places can tell you to take your glasses off?

Just because you 'discreetly' record people using a hidden mobile phone, doesn't make it ok.

Anyone who does what you just described is being a pervert or a wierdo.

I know we're filmed all the time, but there has to be a lawful reason for capturing those recordings. Under GDPR, there needs to be a Clearly defined purpose, and you need to be able to demonstrate that the recording is necessary. You also need to be able to justify retaining those recordings once that purpose has been fulfilled.

https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/guidance-on-the-use-of-cctv

Passive filming by a CCTV that's installed for a specific purpose, and is only shared or accessed in relation to that specific purpose, is a different category to someone deliberately standing somewhere with a camera recording you openly for no obvious purpose.

Under GDPR you can process personally identifiable information (which includes people's images on CCTV) only if there is a justifiable reason to do so, and that footage can only be used afterwards for that specified purpose.

Again, just because someone can do something, doesn't mean that they should.

A private individual recording people to harass them to provoke a reaction so they can post that online, may not be illegal, but it's a c*nty thing to do. And you can't justify that because of CCTV, because CCTV is regulated under GDPR

You'd imagine if any law was being broken our gardai in the video should have known about it, no? Or did you even watch the video in the OP?

I never said a law was broken. I said these people are being C*nts

You don't support him, so you agree it's wrong. Would you support making it illegal?

Recording people in order to harass them?

A think those facebook recording glasses should be illegal too. what about you? (unless they make it super obvious that they are recording, a very bright flashing light for example)

Ok, I'll come to your workplace on Monday and record everything you do for the day. If I am as obnoxious as I can possibly be within the letter of the law, and you react in any emotional way, then I can release that tiny part of the recording without any context, and that's perfectly ok.

You would make a bad business analyst.

If recording is required for real time augmented reality, then treat that separately to any recording that is written to storage and accessible later on.

For example, your phone listens for the words 'Ok Google' so it can activate a service with voice commands. It shouldn't listen to everything you say all the time and record it all forever for blackmail purposes

Any recording that is retained for more than a few seconds, should activate the bright flashing lights to notify the other person that they are being spied on.

If the glasses were easy to spot, then Meta wouldn't have been forced to run the ads telling people how to recognise them

there is a diference between covertly filming someone with a hidden camera and someone standing on a footpath with a very obvious camera pointing at what ever is being filmed.

i agree that those glasses are a step to far and need regulating

It's not the cost of the light. That is insignificant. It's the fact that they know most of the people who would want to buy those spy glasses are perverts and wierdos who want to be able to film others in secret.