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  • 13-02-2014 9:17am
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    Czarcasm
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    scumbag gang which ransacked his home has been warned he is breaking the law.

    Robert Waters is being forced to close down his anti-crime website because it could damage burglars’ data protection rights.

    The IT lecturer posted footage of a gang of thugs smashing their way into his Dublin home in December.

    The CCTV clearly showed the criminals breaking in through the kitchen window.

    They stole his wife’s jewellery, cash, sets of keys and his children’s money boxes.

    He set up www. crimecctv. com in a bid to identify those involved and invited others to post videos of break-ins.

    But the Data Protection Commissioner warned him he should have got permission from the burglars before posting it online.


    Source: Irish Mirror


    It's an interesting case given the surge in people posting videos online of members of the public, without their express permission first. I have always asked permission before I took a person's photo or filmed them (photography and video work being a hobby of mine, and now I think of it, I had to wait yesterday for people to get out of shot before I could get some footage of the storm!), but this is the first time I've ever heard of a case like this where the DPC has contacted a person to inform them that they are breaking the law by not having the express permission of the subject to post the video online!

    We've seen it a couple of times in the last year alone now where videos and photos of members of the public have gone viral on social media, so I'm just thinking, the next time a person uploads, shares or distributes a photo or video of a member of the public without their consent, could they be expecting to be contacted by the Data Protection Commissioner and told they are breaking the law?

    Where does one draw the line between what is in the public interest, and what is actually liable to create a privacy issue? Has anyone here ever been contacted by the DPC and asked to remove videos or photos from their social media outlets because they did not have the permission of the person in the video or photo to publish it online?


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