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 →Video surveillance may rest on the public task ground (Article 6(1)(e)) where needed for that task, with the basis laid down in Union or Member State law;
edpb-guidelines-3-2019-on-processing-of-personal-data-through-video-devices::3.2 · 3.2 Public task: a basis in law, necessity, and national video surveillance rules →Whoever operates video surveillance must post a visible public notice, before or at the latest when surveillance starts, stating who operates it and a telephone number for information on where and how long recordings are stored;
montenegro-law-on-personal-data-protection-2026::2008-39 · 2008 Law Article 39: public notice of video surveillance and protection of the system →A working video surveillance system monitors unloading into lairage, movement from lairage to the stun area, restraint and stunning (for controlled atmosphere systems, entry into and exit from the system), shackling and hoisting, and sticking.
amic-industry-animal-welfare-standard-for-livestock-processing-establishments::5.2.10-5.2.11 · 5.2.10-5.2.11 Video surveillance of welfare-critical processes and one-month retention →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 →The operator must use suitable measures, such as signs placed before the monitored area is entered, so that people can see, at the earliest possible moment, that they are being observed and who the controller is, with the controller's name and how to contact i...
germany-federal-data-protection-act-bdsg::s4-2 · s 4(2) Make video surveillance and the controller identifiable at the earliest possible point →Questions people ask about video surveillance
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