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Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Privacy in Public Spaces:
Video Surveillance and Public Security in European Cities
www.apdcm.es
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Video surveillance growing factors
- Greater concern for public safety
- Digitalization of cameras, video devices and control centres
- Greater affordability of surveillance devices
- Integration with traditional databases (i.e. vehicle owners) and image recognition technologies (i.e. Vehicle license plates)
- Towards a surveillance society?
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Video surveillance in European cities
- Public Spaces and Governmental Buildings
- Metropolitan transport networks: buses, underground, etc...
- Schools
- Hospitals and health care centers
-Traffic and parking control, restricted circulation areas (Oslo, London, etc...)
- ….
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Associated risks
- Unauthorized disclosure of images (Youtube and others). Purpose deviation (i.e. vendor/customer disputes)
- Combination with other privacy challenging technologies (RFID, GPS, image recognition, etc...)
- Illegal treatment of personal data (i.e., “usual suspects”)
- Invasion of professional privacy (i.e., workers supervised 100% of their working time)
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Handling privacy risks
1. Videosurveillance: in most cases, a matter of Personal Data Protection
2. Data Protection Guarantees:
3.Declaration of treatment of images to National Data Protection Authorities
4.Information to individuals
5.Providing access to data protection rights (access, modification, erasure)
6.Data Quality and Security issues
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Information to individuals
- Depending on the purpose: security related vs others
- Security related: simple information ads (in and out of VS areas and exercise of rights), area vs location of cameras, etc…
- Other purposes: sometimes individual information (i.e. specific health care facilities or services such as ER or psychiatrics)
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Data Protection Rights and videosurveillance
- Applicability of Personal Data Protection Rights
- Determination of the identity of the data (image) subject
- Other peoples appearing in the images (third parties’ rights)
- Cancellation rights and storage periods
- Information on how to exercise rights
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Data Quality and Security
- Purpose related collection and storage. Data (image) minimisation
- Limited storage periods
- Controlled access. Logs. Encryption
- Duty of secrecy. Personnel training on data protection issues
- Management, responsibilities (city and
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Videosurveillance: an issue for Data Protection Authorities
- 28th International Conference of Privacy Commissioners, London, Nov. 2006 “A surveillance society?”
- Guidance and control actions by DPAs (i.e. Resolution on Video Surveillance by DPA Madrid, available at www.apdcm.es (option “Legislación”)
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Functions of Madrid DPA
- Manage the Regional Registry of Files containing personal data (14.198 files, +7,8% in 2006)
- Make sure that the individuals’ rights can be exercised. Inspection. (169 actions in 2006, + 62%)
- Raise citizens’ awareness, train public employees and provide consulting services to data controllers (317 sessions and events in 2006, 4.000 participants)
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
International activities
- Dataprot project www.madrid.org/dataprot (EU program “Leonardo Da Vinci”): training for trainers in Data Protection (partners URJC, University of Lapland, University Hradec, DPA Berlin, etc…)
- Manager of the Prize to European Best Practices on Data Protection in Public Administrations (4th Edition in 2007)
- Leading partner of e-PRODAT www.eprodat.org: European Best Practices on Data Protection and e-Government
- Organizer of XIII Edition of the European Data Protection Case Handling Workshop www.wsmadrid2006.es
- Editor of www.dataprotectionreview.eu
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Data Protection Agency – Community of Madrid
Bologna, 28th June 2007
Video Surveillance and Security in European Cities
Francisco José López Carmona
Deputy Director