In the United Arab Emirates disputes on legality of use of record from car DVRs as the proof of someone's fault or, on the contrary, innocence don't cease.
The cameras mounted on dashboards of cars firmly entered mass use by inhabitants of a number of the countries whose number first of all Russia and China treat. However in the UAE definite answer to a question how legal the record made on the video recorder because of threat of invasion into private life is is still not ready.
In 2015 mass media reported the resident of Al Ain Ibrahim Ahmed who purchased one of devices of this kind in Great Britain, but didn't decide to establish it in the car as didn't know precisely whether he thereby will break the law or not. At the same time the resident of the UAE was firmly convinced in advantage of the video recorder in a question of collection of evidential base for the dispute resolution and decrease in number of cases of unsafe driving and aggression on roads. Ibrahim's case is very indicative — it shows the general relation of the population of the Emirates to a phenomenon of videos which at the same time can serve both as the benefit, and the evil.
I forced to doubt the man including the incident which took place in 2013. Then the citizen of India posted on the Internet video of a fight after road accident which quickly gained popularity on YouTube. Soon the author was accused of slander. Though after accusation were removed from it, the public received a lesson about the importance of personal privacy in the UAE — before making video or photographing in the country, it is necessary to take an interest at the people getting into the shot whether they give on this consent. Photography not in public places in the UAE can lead someone to imprisonment from one to three months and a penalty at the rate to 5 thousand dirhams ($1360).
In 2015 the lawyer Amer of Al Marzouki, commenting on legal status of record from the video recorder, I told that such material won't be considered as the proof in court
"Video recorders are forbidden in the UAE and can't be established in private automobiles as they fix zones, roads and people who, perhaps, don't wish that" — Al Marzouki declared — "The evidence shall be to have under themselves legal cause."
Thomas Edelman, the founder of the Road Safety UAE organization, spoke for benefit of video recorders, believing that those can play an important role in questions of compliance with laws and the dispute resolution.
Federal recommendation on car traffic of the UAE, apparently, listened to recommendations and decided to clear up a question of use of video cameras on forward panels of vehicles. There was it on January 28, 2016. Then Council actually legalized records from video recorders in the country.
Acting with arguments for benefit of video proofs, the major general Mohammed Saif Al Tsafin, the chairman of the board and the assistant to the ordering chief of the Dubai police, gave a case when the same person was hit within a month in the same place as an example. Record from cameras, in his opinion, could clear up the incident with the victim.
Recommendation decided that use of such cameras shan't break confidentiality at the time of record of the events on the road at all.
In February a number of national media declared that records from cameras received the status of legal. They explained that in the UAE actually there is no law providing criminal liability for installation of video recorders. The high-ranking official, commenting on news, I told that motorists can use even the records made on cameras of mobile phones on condition that it is made only for the purpose of prevention of road traffic offenses. By a special line in official comments cases of fight against intentional road accidents with the blackmail purpose were noted. Video recorders in a similar context could become the irreplaceable instrument of fight against swindlers.
"The most important aspect of this recommendation — not to violate the right to personal privacy of participants of traffic by means of cameras" — Al Tsafin added.
The police of Dubai in February urged inhabitants to provide records on which offenses are fixed, but warned against placement of similar information on social networks. Returned to a question of legality of video recorders of the power this September again: the colonel Al Mazrouei's Mukheyr, the director of Head department of traffic in police of Dubai, reported that within the We Are Police program the department welcomes sending of video and photo confirmations of the violations made on roads.
He added that in the first quarter 2016 the police received 12,4 thousand materials from registrars, 4831 of which arrived from users.
Mike Singer, the executive brand manager of the Open-Eye Security Systems company, unique having the license for distribution and installation of video recorders in the UAE for commercial use, declared that benefits of similar devices are important for drivers in the same degree, as for police.
"It can help to prove your innocence in police of Dubai or in your insurance company in case of incorrect judicial assessment" — he told, having added that the company created the unified register in a cooperation with Department of systems of protection.
According to Mike, video recorders are unambiguously legal. The confusion results only from concern of residents of the UAE concerning private life.
The colonel Al Mazrouei in turn noted that any photos or videos made by means of the camera by the driver or his passenger can be regarded as violation of the law about confidentiality. In order to avoid the possible legal claim citizens should share materials only with police which will check them for the fact of availability of violations.
The lawyer Yusef Al-Bahar told: "The law says that if someone breaks immunity of someone's private life the publication of news, photos, video records, comments or other data on the Internet, it can face custodial sanction for a period of up to six months and/or a penalty at the rate from 150 thousand to 500 thousand dirhams [$40,8-136,1 thousand]."
The police same September reported that inhabitants can be signed on the MyID service and use the personal profile to report about road traffic offenses.
The The National edition, having made not so long ago next official request concerning legitimacy of use of video recorders, once again confirmed the settled state line item for the public: the made records are legal, and the authorities with hunting will accept them, but to avoid violation of limits of someone's confidentiality, it is necessary to take care of that further channels of police materials didn't get anywhere.
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