privacy germany transportation
Legal issues around digital mirrors in public transportation?
<p>Public transportation comapany in our city has recently installed monitors in its vehicles and from time to time monitors are used as digial mirrors: digital video from the video cameras in the vehicle are relayed in monitors. The video quality is not high and it really resembles video signal that comes from the video surveillance systems (angle, slow motions, skewed images) but company insists that it separates systems and videos from it surveillance systems are classified as secret but videos from the s. c. "digital mirrors" (which resembles surveillance results anyway) are published.</p>

<p>So - how legally it is to use such digital mirros? I find such relaying of low quality and disturbed videos to be humiliating and I would like to sue the company but are there legal norms that prohibits the use of digital mirros (especially in humiliating ways) or that governs the quality of digital mirrors?</p>

<p>The mentioned country is under continental (german) law system.</p>

<p>It is legal to take photos/videos from anywhere you have permission from the controller to do so - the bus company presumably gives themselves permission to take photos on their own buses.</p>

<p>It is legal to do whatever you like with your own photos including displaying them on a monitor (subject to any illegality in the subject itself e.g. Child pornography).</p>

<p>If you don't want to be in the photo you can choose not to ride the bus.</p>
