Video Surveillance
What is Video Surveillance?
The use of cameras and recording systems to monitor and record activities in and around facilities for security, safety, and compliance purposes.
Terms that appear alongside video surveillance
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as video surveillance. The number is how many controls name both.
- consent 8 shared controls
- gdpr 8 shared controls
- anonymisation 4 shared controls
- code of ethics 4 shared controls
- lawful basis 4 shared controls
- transparency 3 shared controls
- pseudonymisation 3 shared controls
- authorisation 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern video surveillance
What the standards actually require on video surveillance
Requirements naming video surveillance across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Video-surveillance footage may be kept for at most six months, unless a longer retention is prescribed by another law or the footage is evidence in judicial, administrative, arbitration or equivalent proceedings.
HR-GDPR-Art.29 · Video Surveillance - Retention Limit →Georgia DPL cross-border + breach + special-context regimes. CROSS-BORDER TRANSFERS (Art. 35-37 - GDPR Chapter V aligned): personal data may be transferred outside Georgia only where: (a) ADEQUACY - the destination country provides adequate level of protection...
GeDPL-CrossBorder-Breach-Surveillance-Marketing · Cross-Border Transfers, 72-Hour Breach Notification, Video Surveillance and Marketing →Use of CCTV and location data is subject to proportionality, signage, retention limits and APD notification or authorisation.
AO-PDPL-14 · Video Surveillance and Location Data →Image processing (video surveillance) is permitted only on the conditions in DSG ss12-13, including admissibility grounds, transparency/marking and deletion obligations.
AT-DSG-6 · Sections 12-13 - Image processing (video surveillance/CCTV) →Latvia PDPL Special-Contexts processing derogations and elaborations. Section 10 Processing for Journalistic + Academic + Artistic + Literary Expression - extensive GDPR Article 85 derogation balancing freedom of expression + privacy + Press Law of Republic of...
LV-PDPL-Special-Contexts-Journalistic-Academic-Artistic-Literary-S10-Personal-ID-Numbers-S9-Video-Surveillance-S25-Direct-Marketing-S28 · Latvia PDPL Special Contexts + Journalism + S.10 + Personal ID Numbers + Video Surveillance + Direct Marketing →Lithuania ADTAI Articles 7-8 + 19 Special-Contexts Processing. Article 7 Video Surveillance (Vaizdo stebejimas) - VDAI Video Surveillance Guidelines (2019, updated 2023) + GDPR Article 6 lawful basis + DPIA mandatory for systematic monitoring of public/employe...
LT-LPPD-Special-Categories-Workplace-Article-8-Video-Surveillance-Article-7-Scientific-Historical-Research-Article-19 · Lithuania ADTAI Workplace + Video Surveillance + Research + Articles 7-8-19 →Questions people ask about video surveillance
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