On Wed, 30 May 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Local government put in bids for CCTV equipment and running costs. To forget
> about the cost of fulfilling legal obligations such as subject access
> requests would be remiss of any bidder. It would be unlikely that a failure
> to adequately cost a CCTV installation would be enough to claim a
> "disproportionate effort" defence.
But can you answer the question, what is the cost of doing so? You would
need some fancy recording/digitising kit, and would have to pick out the
parts of each frame to show to the subject. Perhaps the lawyers don't
understand that searching images is a shade harder than searching plain
text, and the fact it can be stored on a computer is largely irrelevant?
> Nothing, repeat nothing, can be removed or "fuzzed out" except images of
> third parties from whom you do not have consent and where it is unreasonable
> in the circumstances to disclose without their consent.
I don't quite see where the law states what should or should not be shown
to the data subject. If everything bar the subject is fuzzed, then the
subject knows they were in the footage at time X; what else do they have a
legal right to know?
> He was, however, easy to pick out. He was in amongst six morris dancers and
> he carried a huge sign saying "My name is Mark Thomas, can I have a copy of
> the tape please?"
Which shows the technology to fuzz out has to be manual, which requires
time and effort and equipment.
> However, although LB Newham have sophisticated "image match" software for
> their CCTV system where the moving video image is measured against still
> images provided by the Met Police, they couldn't pick out Mark Thomas or the
> morris dancers from other people in the street so they failed to supply the
> footage. I understand he has complained to the OIC.
Well, anyone could carry a sign saying "I am Mark Thomas"? Even if Thomas
said that he was carryign such a sign at such a time, I would expect the
controller should be confident that the person really is him before
realeasing any footage. If the picture quality is poor, that can't be done
with human or computer aid?
Tim
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