A judge has upheld the right of members of the public to submit bike and dash-cam footage of law-breaking drivers to the police, after a retired solicitor attempted to sue a cyclist who filmed her

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How is this any different than a dashcam?

  Oh wait, cyclist.

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• guy_threepwood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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?

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In Germany privacy laws are so strict that I tried to record street scammers and they called the police on me

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  c/titlegore

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• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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