6d ago

Judge rules bike camera footage is legal, as phone-driving solicitor’s attempt to sue camera cyclist for breaching data protection laws

Judge rules bike camera footage is legal, as phone-driving solicitor’s attempt to sue camera cyclist for breaching data protection laws and enforcing “police-controlled state” fails

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How is this any different than a dashcam?
Oh wait, cyclist.
I genuinely don’t understand what is so important that it can’t wait until people reach their destination.
Are there seriously that many people addicted to smartphones?
- It's generally my boss texting me because he has absolutely no idea what the schedule for today is, I take great pleasure and ignoring him. I could pull over and answer him but I'm not gonna.
I would love to see them try that for other crimes.
Excuse me, I'm allowed to shoplift, that CCTV camera is breaking my privacy rights.
- In Germany privacy laws are so strict that I tried to record street scammers and they called the police on me
c/titlegore
The solicitor, who was fined and issued six penalty points after she was
As an American, penalty points on a driving license is a nice idea, but makes me thing the ~~ref~~ judge blows a whistle and cards the defendant.
- It's a kind of ridiculous system though because you somewhat arbitrarily have 12 points on your licence, which is just a weird number for them to have chosen, and penalty points only stay on your licence for 18 months. So you could be like this idiot and drive while using your phone and you probably won't be caught often enough for you to actually lose your licence.
  So habitual offenders get away with it as long as they're not too egregious.
Given modern cars are obsessed with having the dash be a giant tablet, I don't see how using a phone or operating your car are any different these days.
Oh, and giant dash tablets are fucking awful, but if they're OK, then so should phones be.
- Because the GPS isn't distracting, reading a message is distracting, writing a message is especially distracting.
  Glancing at the screen to see when you're turning left isn't.
  
  They're not just a GPS though are they, they're used to control everything in the car. Heating, stereo, reading and replying to messages - everything you can do on a phone and you claimed they can't. The death if physical buttons should be as big a safety concern as using a phone.

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