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Updated CCTV guidelines from Data Protection office

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    rolion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭rolion


    Thanks.

    Does that means we are not obliged any more to display that big red sign CCTV 24h in the front of the house !?

    Also, quite surprised that they touched the dash cams...

    Rgds


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    fred funk }{
    Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    The data protection legislation never included CCTV for non comercial use anyway. It just confirms what was already in place.

    Basically, Data Protection has nothing to do with domestic CCTV systems.


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,350 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    Dated 22/12/2015
    https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Data-Protection-CCTV/242.htm

    This EU court case is relevant also
    http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-212/13
    Key lines
    The question:
    Meaning of ‘in the course of a purely personal or household activity’ — Use of a surveillance camera to record footage of the entrance to the recording system operator’s home, a public space and the entrance to the house opposite)"
    The answer.
    " The operation of a camera system installed on a family home for the protection of the property, health and life of the owners of the home, but which also monitors a public space, cannot be regarded as the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity for the purposes of Article 3(2) of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data."
    Am I reading this to say that "Use of a surveillance camera to record footage of ... a public space and the entrance to the house opposite" is NOT acceptable, as it is not "purely personal or household activity"?


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