Privacy in Public Spaces: Video Surveillance and Public Security in European Cities www'apdcm'es

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Privacy in Public SpacesVideo Surveillance and
Public Security in European Citieswww.apdcm.es
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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?

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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...)
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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)

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Handling privacy risks

• Videosurveillance in most cases, a matter of
  Personal Data Protection
• Data Protection Guarantees
• Declaration of treatment of images to National
  Data Protection Authorities
• Information to individuals
• Providing access to data protection rights
  (access, modification, erasure)
• Data Quality and Security issues

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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)

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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

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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• Francisco José López Carmona
• Deputy Director
• jose.lopezcarmona_at_madrid.org