You know a matter is serious when a top international tribunal takes upon itself to change the course of society. This year, three rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority of the EU, show its grave concern for the data-hungry world in which we live and its desire to change it. Each of these rulings targets a different audience – the state, the corporate world and the citizen – but all of them uphold the role of privacy as a right that is threatened by our tech-driven existence. The effects of these decisions go beyond the pure legal technicalities of interpreting European data protection law because their consistent message is that society as a whole, in the EU and elsewhere, should be less tolerant of and more concerned about our dependence on data.
Tag Archives: CCTV
CCTV: CJEU Narrows the Scope Of The Household Exemption
The Court of Justice of the European Union has today published its decision in the case of Ryneš and has found that domestic CCTV which films a public area cannot be exempt from the obligations contained in the EU Data Protection Directive by virtue of the “household exemption”.
Eye-Spy: CCTV on the Internet
It sounds like an ‘April fool,’ but the story this week that people can sign up to a new internet game where they spot crimes on CCTV cameras posted in Britain and earn points for doing so might actually be true. Both the Daily Mail and the Guardian’s online news pages featured stories about this […]