Germany to expand CCTV network
Source: The Guardian
Wednesday 21 December 2016 17.38 GMT
Germany’s coalition government has approved regulation to allow an expansion of the country’s video surveillance network, as police officials called on Berlin to rethink its suspicion of CCTV cameras in the wake of Monday’s Christmas Market attack.
Laws in Germany around the use of surveillance cameras are more restrictive than in many other countries and, even though Monday’s attack took place on one of the busiest squares in the city, no footage of the incident has yet been made public.
The proposed new laws will allow for an increased use of CCTV in public places such as sports stadiums and shopping centres, as well as forcing data protection commissioners to give greater weight than before to “the protection of life, health and freedom” when deciding whether to permit video surveillance.
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While the new legislation would represent a relaxation of the country’s strict privacy laws, the power to allow or to ban CCTV cameras in public spaces remains with Germany’s states and city states.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/germany-to-expand-cctv-network
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