Ask yourself why places like Austria have banned them.
As above - German and Austria privacy laws are very very strict compared to ours and what we are accustomed to. For instance, in Berlin no CCTV cameras are allowed to be streamed live. In Bavaria/Saxony no cameras are allowed in railway stations or on public transport. Germany and Austria have a real distrust of CCTV - a far cry away from the general British attitude on it. Quite why you think this is some vindication of your point of view is not obvious to me?
Fox can't help but mistake the minority of dashcam users for the majority - I can only imagine that in his mind, every dash cam user tries to cause accidents whilst gleefully yelling out of the window "I'VE GOT YOU ON CAMERA MATE!". He uses language like "surveillance" to make it sound underhanded, covert and unethical. The only person it's "surveilling" is yourself or your passengers. I can't understand why he constantly bangs this drum trying to convince people it's bad thing - if he doesn't want to pay £50 for one, great, then don't, and he doesn't have it in his car. It's hardly like people are paying £2000 for one of these.
If we lived in a world where people were honest, or even most people were honest, there would be no need for dashcams. I have mine in the car in case of an insurance claim and the other person tries to misrepresent what happened, or just outright lie which means the claim would go 50/50 or I would potentially be found at fault. Never underestimate how much people will lie to shirk responsibility for things. Dashcams also push down insurance premiums for people as insurance companies can base their risk more on the driver they're insuring and to settle claims quicker and cheaper. I bought my camera 5 years ago for £38(+£10 for the installation kit). Now, in that same period I have spent over £16000 on fuel for my car.
I've lost track of the number of people who have been in a collision, that sounds like it'd be straight forward, but the other party makes up some absolute rubbish to try and push responsibility off themselves. Indeed, I *myself* have been in a situation about 2 years ago where a driver crashed and tried to blame myself for ramming her (?!), when in actual fact she didn't look in her mirror before moving into lane 2 of a dual carriageway and panicked when she saw me there and over corrected and span off the road - unfortunatley this was on my second car (Mini Cooper) in which I didn't have a dashcam because I didn't use it much. The saving grace was that she didn't actually make contact with me - proving she was lying and the story she told her solicitor differed from the one she told the insurance company meaning it was dropped. Had she moved another foot over and hit my car though, it would have been a different story and I could have been convicted of careless driving and been found at fault for the insurance.
My sister was involved in a collision where someone went through a red light and failed to give way and went head on into her car. The other driver immediately claimed my sister had jumped a red light and ran into him, and it was only for the grace that there was about 5 witnesses who confirmed that *he* jumped the red light, that he ended up being convicted of careless driving and insurance settled.
I remember a member on here posted that when they were sat waiting at a roundabout and a woman behind had rear ended him. She was immediately apologetic, until she got home and suddenly changed her tune and alleged that he had rolled back into her! No witnesses, no dashcam. The only saving grace in that situation was that I think the member had an automatic car that had hill control and also had a couple of text messages from the woman before she had a chance to talk to her husband!
Perhaps Fox is just fortunate enough to have never been on the other end of another driver outright lying? Unfortunately, many others have, which is why the market has surged and now over 7 million motorists use them - and this is expected to continue increasing at a very quick rate.