DATA PROTECTION ISSUES PERFORMING VIDEO SURVEILLANCE XIV Case Handling Workshop Athens, November 2006

2 Current situation According to the Article 25 of Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania data controllers have notify the Inspectorate about performed video surveillance There are 22 registered data controllers in the State Register of Personal Data Controllers

3 22 registered data controllers House of Correction, Investigation Infirmary – Prison, Investigation infirmaries; Several Police Commissariats; Prisons Department; Police Department; Company organizing the games of chance; Chief Police Commissariat of Vilnius city. Usually image data are stored for 5-7 days, at longest – 20 days.

4 Two cases where the Inspectorate issued decisions 1) Chief Police Commissariat of Vilnius city (purpose – security of public order and crimes prevention) 2) Employer performing video surveillance in building of special mission (received complaint)

5 Chief Police Commissariat of Vilnius city 78 cameras of video surveillance in Vilnius city The criminality decreased about 40 percent Instruction to Commissariat with regard informing data subjects Problems of informing data subjects

6 Employer performing video surveillance in building of special mission The cameras of video surveillance were implemented in different places of building The information signs were only at the entrance to the territory of building of special mission and to the premises of building The purposes and additional information were unknown Instruction to employer with regard informing data subjects

7 Problems of national legislation Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania is applied to the processing of image data by means of video surveillance There are no specific provisions concerning video surveillance in this Law

8 Problems of national legislation (cont.) Analytic review performed by Human Rights Monitoring Institute One of conclusion of analytic review - no specific legal regulation for using video cameras: who and for what purposes is allowed to use cameras, proportionality of introducing of them, data subject’s rights

9 Problems of national legislation (cont.) Preparation of draft Law Discussion concerning video surveillance

Thank you for your attention Neringa Kaktaviciute