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Unless you're wealthy and powerful.

I guarantee the very wealthy or politically powerful have plenty of very-well-hidden cameras surrounding their properties.

Those rules are to keep you from catching and proving the powerful doing something they shouldn't.

>>KennyB+(OP)
I... well, I will be honest, this is the first time I've heard someone arguing that street facing CCTV was meant to catch _that_ kind of wrongdoing.

For the German context, and for the kind of CCTV I'm talking about, it makes no sense thou.