Is it legal to recording people in public in Denmark?
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Legal position
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Official Danish guidance treats public image or audio capture by controllers such as CCTV or bodycams as personal-data processing with duties around lawful purpose, notice, rights and deletion, and audio capture is normally subject to stricter criminal-law consent rules.
Conditions
What would need to be true
If people are identifiable, the recorder must have a lawful purpose and follow the data-protection rules; if sound is captured, consent from at least one participant or another lawful route is needed because secret recording of others' conversations is prohibited.
Exceptions
Known carve-outs or edge cases
The official sources reviewed here regulate controller or organised recording scenarios rather than every private handheld recording situation.
Penalties
Penalty snapshot
Specific penalties depend on the exact offence and circumstances.
Enforcement
How this may be enforced
Datatilsynet can enforce data-protection rules, and police can enforce criminal-law limits on secret audio recording.
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Compare this activity in other countries
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Australia
Recording people in public in Australia is not automatically unlawful but organisations and agencies using security cameras or similar surveillance devices generally must comply with privacy rules and relevant state or territory surveillance laws.
Austria
Austria’s Data Protection Authority says photo and video recording needs a lawful basis and proportionality. Recording people in public therefore depends on what is being recorded, why, and how broadly the recording intrudes on others.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina's data-protection authority says video surveillance is processing of personal data and must meet necessity, proportionality and accountability requirements. Recording people in public is therefore not a free-for-all if identifiable individuals are being monitored.
Canada
Recording people in public is not automatically unlawful in Canada but organizations using overt video surveillance still need a specific justified purpose and should use the least privacy invasive measure that works.
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