Draft Code of Practice on City Centre CCTV neglects data protection obligations
The Home Office’s (very truncated) consultation on a revised Code of Practice involving overt surveillance of public places (e.g. the use of facial recognition CCTV, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)) ends in early September. In summary, the draft Code contains too many general platitudes for my liking and is deficient on important detail. So much so, one wonders whether the Home Office is taking this public consultation seriously. The two main deficiencies are: omission of key elements of the UK_GDPR




