Hi
From memory when I was interested in what you post (late 1990s/early 2000) CCTV could not be used for monitoring employees e.g. time keeping, or with whom they arrive at work in "the car". It would be different if an employee was breaking the law (e.g. health and safety regulations of the employer).
I hope I am right ;-)
Cheers
Charles
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Subject: [data-protection] CCTV and Staff Monitoring
A recent grievance case centred around the accusation that a line manager had used CCTV to monitor another staff member's start and finish times.
As it turned out there was no evidence to substantiate the claim. The case nevertheless got me running for our ICO registration and Monitoring at Work Policy to check whether we would have been covered had the CCTV allegations turned out to be true.
The main purpose of using CCTV is to prevent and detect crime, but our ICO entry also notes that CCTV may be used to "monitor staff when carrying out work duties". This is a bit of a catch all to cover any eventuality where CCTV may be used.
We also have a CCTV Policy which clearly sets out that all requests for access to CCTV must be approved by our Departmental Security Officer - which essentially means that a case must be made for each access and they will seek to balance the an individual’s right to privacy against the seriousness of the allegations in making a decision.
However our Monitoring at Work Policy is vague on the subject so I am looking to revise this.
My question is this: Is our current approach an acceptable one (ie consider each case on its merits) or is the use of CCTV to monitor staff work times in any circumstance off limits? What about proximity card data in similar circumstances?
Seth Speirs
Assistant Departmental Security Officer
Public Prosecution Service
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