Tools To Ensure That Citizens’ Rights Are Respected With CCTV Systems
CCTV systems are becoming a more common security measure as technology advances, and video recording gets more superficial and economical. Most people already use an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras and record more than 4 billion hours of video every week. The law evolves far slower than technology, and few rules restrict the use of public video monitoring. Where they do exist, the majority of them are concerned with preserving individual rights or privacy and ensuring that cameras are not installed in places where people have legitimate expectations of privacy, such as public toilets and changing rooms. However, when CCTV is used to record public places, there are agreed-upon best practices that serve as a set of rules and methods to guarantee that citizens' rights are maintained. These are some of them: Necessity Only an adequately established law enforcement principle should be used to justify video monitoring. Establish clear, objectives for using CCTV systems and a...