Are you using a dashcam in your car? Recording videos for your personal safety and use is important. However, many countries take a different stand on the video recordings of your drives and how you use them. While the privacy laws in India are not strictly adhered to, the laws by themselves are strict. As a result any careless sharing of videos or information could land you in a legal trouble. So, understand the privacy concern of everyone in the video and handle the videos with care. Further, the leakage of your personal videos can happen anywhere and cause your irreparable damage.
Choose Dashcams that Have Encryption Technology
Advanced and premium quality dashcams come with encryption technology that encrypts the videos and provides you a simple layer of security over unauthorised usage of the videos. This encryption can only provide a certain degree of protection and you shouldn’t be complacent as the videos are encrypted. These kind of encryptions are easy to decrypt and you should consider that before saving the files in public workspaces.
Keep the SD Cards in Safe Location
Secondly, make sure that you always store your dashcam SD cards in in a safe place. Without physical access, strangers can’t get hold of the videos. Even when you are travelling or transporting the SD card, always ensure that the cards are in safe possession. If you misplace your cards anywhere, it could potentially fall into the hands of strangers and people with malice intent.
Also never share your memory cards with others as even deleted videos could be retrieved by others. If you have any confidential and personal videos taken from your car dashcam, then it is better kept in your possession.
Enable Password Protection in Cloud Accounts
Cloud infrastructure is reliable and can be used for storing the videos from the dashboard cameras. However, even cloud systems are not safe and are prone to hacking. So, it is necessary that you enable the best password protection for your cloud files. For instance, you can switch on the two factor authentication. It is a system in which you need to authenticate the same password through one more source which will add one important layer of protection.
For instance, if someone overhears your password or if someone peeks into your computer system to know your password, it will be easy for them to access your files. However, with the Two Factor Authentication, you need to acknowledge and authenticate the password through one more source such as an SMS to your mobile number or the random passcode from your Google Authenticator app. This ensures that your videos stay private.
Don’t Share Images and Videos without Proper Permission
In today’s world social media plays an important role. Whether it is the deeply personal moments or the funny incidents on the road, people immediately take to social media to share their photos, videos and opinions. While sharing videos on social media is common, the videos that you share could contain the faces and other private information about others. As a result, your videos could affect and might even damage their private image. So, it is always important to get the permission of everyone featuring n the video. While many people are fine with such sharing a few might take offence and even initiate criminal procedures against you. So, always get the appropriate permission before sharing the videos and image son the social media.
Delete Old Footage in the Cloud Account
Your cloud account can get filled up with old and unwanted videos. Whether it is the pleasant videos that reminds you of the wonderful trips that you have taken or the funny videos that makes you laugh, keep the necessary videos and delete the uneventful videos from your dashboard cameras. Similarly, make sure that you have saved all the important videos that could be necessary during a lawsuit. If there were any accidents or hit and miss incidents, the videos containing those should be carefully saved and taken back upat multiple locations and also in the cloud infrastructure.
These are some of the most common ways in which you can maintain the privacy and confidentiality of yourdashcam videos without compromising on their easy availability.