Legal notices, data protection notices: All recordings were made for specific occasions as part of an artistic activity as a videographer and publisher and not for the purposes of monitoring road traffic or for prosecuting violations of the road traffic regulations. The purpose of the representations in this channel is therefore to show streetscapes from the perspective of a car journey. Vehicle registration numbers are personal data if the owner is a natural person. Whether this data can be processed and shown publicly depends on a large number of different factors and interests that must be weighed against each other. To explain this in full here for the case of streetscapes that can be seen in this channel would exceed the scope of 5000 characters. From the videos, without (recognizable) damage events and knowledge of the date/time (not published by the channel operator), there is basically no legally compliant way to find out the owner of a vehicle via the Central Vehicle Register. Possible prosecution of traffic violations without knowledge of the date/time is also practically impossible, as there is no prospect of success here. For all recordings that are more than three years old, it should also be noted that after three years, due to the general limitation period, all owner queries are generally considered inadmissible, as no claims can be made. Only in very rare cases can a personally known owner be identified based on a license plate number alone; in these cases, the connection between the type, color and model of the vehicle is usually much more important. As is the exact time of the recording, which is not published. Unlike a date of birth, for example, a license plate number does not have a lifelong reference to an owner, but rather a very limited time-frame (usually vehicle-related). The people who are sometimes recorded at random appear without exception as artistic accessories in accordance with Section 23 (1) Paragraph 2 KUG. The depiction of people as accessories is therefore possible without permission and the GDPR does not fundamentally contradict this. Due to shutter speeds of 1/60s or 1/120s and the resulting motion blur, the clear identifiability of people and faces is already significantly limited or sometimes no longer possible. Furthermore, by choosing a strong wide-angle lens, individuals are usually shown relatively small and therefore not to be seen as in the foreground or as an essential part of a shot. This also applies to the representation of license plates. Due to the very small size and the motion blur or movements, clear and complete legibility is in most cases difficult or even no longer possible in the image. Taking the above aspects into account, additional blurring of people and license plates is usually neither necessary nor technically directly object-related for the type of recording (especially with the YouTube tool, as of 12/2024) and is possible to a limited extent so that no damage is caused to the other image content itself. Basically, it can be said that the depiction of each license plate and each person is legally an individual case that cannot be answered in general terms, just like the possible demarcation of when a license plate is legible and when a person is identifiable. The angle, direction of view and camera height correspond to a normal view from public areas, which could be seen by any natural person. Therefore, the principle of freedom of panorama applies to all recordings. The camera vehicle was driven within the framework of the Road Traffic Act and the regulations in force at the time of recording were observed with the utmost care. The cameras were mounted firmly on the vehicle in such a way that their loss never posed a danger to other road users. Cameras and their accessories are considered cargo, and Section 22 of the Road Traffic Act was observed in the currently applicable version. If the camera vehicle accidentally encounters accident sites, access, rescue or care for those involved in the accident was not endangered in any way. Only recordings are published where this is permitted within the framework of applicable laws. There is no general ban on filming accident sites and publishing the recordings. As long as no person's rights are violated, especially those in need of assistance, and no obstruction occurs in accordance with the StVO/StGB, recordings can be used and published freely and without problems within the framework of freedom of panorama and artistic activity. ...