Comments on: What price privacy when cctv is about? http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/what-price-privacy-when-cctv-is-about/ the Irish for rights Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cearta.ie » You don’t know what you’ve lost till it’s gone? Privacy in a world gone Web2.0 http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/what-price-privacy-when-cctv-is-about/comment-page-1/#comment-6931 cearta.ie » You don’t know what you’ve lost till it’s gone? Privacy in a world gone Web2.0 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:30:59 +0000 http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/what-price-privacy-when-cctv-is-about/#comment-6931 [...] about a world where our privacy is invaded - not so much by state surveillance or corporate cctv, which we all now recognise, tolerate, even accept (so the helmet cams are little more than [...] [...] about a world where our privacy is invaded – not so much by state surveillance or corporate cctv, which we all now recognise, tolerate, even accept (so the helmet cams are little more than [...]

]]> By: Eoin http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/what-price-privacy-when-cctv-is-about/comment-page-1/#comment-3430 Eoin Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:26:26 +0000 http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/what-price-privacy-when-cctv-is-about/#comment-3430 The Department approved over €225,000 in grant funding for community CCTV in <a href="http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PR07000661" rel="nofollow">May</a>; whilst the <a href="http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Minister%20Lenihan%20announces%20over%20%E2%82%AC2.75m%20in%20Community%20CCTV%20funding" rel="nofollow">most recent stage</a> of the Department's policy (the Minister's speech is <a href="http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Address%20by%20the%20Minister%20for%20Justice,%20Equality%20and%20Law%20Reform%20to%20announce%20the%20successful%20applicants%20for%20grant-aid%20under%20the%20Community-based%20CCTV%20scheme,%20Ballymun%20Civic%20Offices" rel="nofollow">here</a>) is discussed on DRI's blog <a href="http://www.digitalrights.ie/2007/07/31/safeguards-needed-for-cctv-systems/" rel="nofollow">here,</a> arguing again that safeguards are needed for such cctv systems. The Department approved over €225,000 in grant funding for community CCTV in May; whilst the most recent stage of the Department’s policy (the Minister’s speech is here) is discussed on DRI’s blog here, arguing again that safeguards are needed for such cctv systems.

]]> By: Eoin http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/what-price-privacy-when-cctv-is-about/comment-page-1/#comment-2849 Eoin Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:22:40 +0000 http://www.cearta.ie/2007/04/what-price-privacy-when-cctv-is-about/#comment-2849 For an example of the kinds of possible abuses, against which there need to be protections, see R v Hardy (Attorney General’s Reference (No 1 of 2007) (Attorney General’s Reference (No 1 of 2007)) (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, 7 March 2007) reported in <a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/reports/article1642600.ece" rel="nofollow">The Times (12 April 2007)</a> under the law report headnote: <blockquote>Police officers had to realise that accessing the police national computer for an improper purpose was an offence that required an immediate prison sentence.</blockquote> For an example of the kinds of possible abuses, against which there need to be protections, see R v Hardy (Attorney General’s Reference (No 1 of 2007) (Attorney General’s Reference (No 1 of 2007)) (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, 7 March 2007) reported in The Times (12 April 2007) under the law report headnote:

Police officers had to realise that accessing the police national computer for an improper purpose was an offence that required an immediate prison sentence.

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