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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.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as video surveillance. The number is how many controls name both.

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

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.
Why is Video Surveillance important for compliance?
Video Surveillance is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding video surveillance helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Video Surveillance?
Video Surveillance appears in the requirement text of Act on the Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (OG 42/2018), Georgia Law on Personal Data Protection (2012), Angola Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 22/11), Austria Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, DSG, amended 2018), Latvia Personal Data Processing Law (Fizisko personu datu apstrades likums, 2018). Across these standards we have identified 15 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Video Surveillance?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how video surveillance applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Video Surveillance applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.