Tag: Keith Spiller

Gaining access to CCTV images is far more difficult than the legislation suggests it ought to be

Gaining access to CCTV images is far more difficult than the legislation suggests it ought to be

Under the 1998 Data Protection Act, citizens have the right to access CCTV images of themselves. One researcher, Keith Spiller, sought to test out how easy it actually is to gain access to the footage, and sought to deliberately stand in site of CCTV cameras for two minutes at a time. He found it far […]