Nearly all CCTV systems in Britain are operating illegally, a consultant has warned. Bernie Brooks of consultancy firm Datpro told Out Law Radio that less than five per cent of the buildings he had surveyed met basic data protection laws.The warning comes amidst growing fears over privacy and just months before the Security Industry Association begins CCTV licensing in Scotland - potentially rendering thousands more systems illegal.
“If a system is non-compliant,” Brooks warned, “it could invalidate the usefulness of the evidence in a court of law.”
“You could, in theory, walk in [to a business] and say 'I would like a copy of my images from yesterday'. “I tell you now, if you went and did that, 75 per cent of the businesses out there – if not 95 per cent – wouldn’t know what you were talking about and wouldn’t know how to handle it.”
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