Hypothetical legal question I would like answered before I have to....
If I am filming from my helmet cam on a public road:
Do the Police have the right to impound my camera or its media?
If so on what grounds?
in the event that my riding was not quite as law abiding as I believed it to bewould they be entitled to review the tape an ticket me for offenses spotted that they did not already know about? (eg. the person with the scooter on the roundabout on utube)
I know that if you enter your recordings into the public domain (e.g you publish them or put them on the internet) they are entitled to review them and may be entitled issue relevant tickets where identity of driver or vehicle is able to be established and the authenticity of the footage is able to be verified.
When I was at polytech (nearly 20 years ago) the laws were vague but to the effect that they could only impound media when it was "believed they contained evidence of a crime" and the evidence could not be used to issue traffic fines unless they were in relation to a "significant event" that the media had been impounded to investigate.
Laws have changed a lot since then.
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