It wasn't in Germany, and my understanding is that in Germany, the issue isn't the video, it's the recording of the audio conversation.

Anyway, still not applicable in the Netherlands.

> Roel Maalderink visited the company's Amsterdam office

That's not true in that simplified form.

It's perfectly fine to take pictures of the Brandenburger Tor for example and post them online. There will likely be people in that picture but as they are not the main aspect of the image, it will be fine.

It's something different if you zoom in on somebody in that scene and he becomes the main point of the image. Then his personal rights overwhelm the right to document public spaces.

> It's illegal to record people in public spaces in Germany.

That's wild. In Ireland, there's no expectation of privacy in a public place, so you can record without issue.