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We've Got Our Beady eyes on You...

A recent investigation by leading property security company, Clearway, has revealed alarming levels of non-compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force precisely one year ago on 25 May 2018, especially where the use of CCTV is concerned. The reasons for this worrying discovery were multiple, but appeared mainly to be because the management responsible hadn’t bothered to read all the Regulations in enough detail, don’t think they apply to them, are too lazy to comply with it all or simply don’t understand them.

CCTV cameras are now a fact of life and surround us. Six years ago, the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) estimated there were nearly 6m in the country, including 750,000 in “sensitive locations” such as schools, hospitals and care homes, and there are some 15,600 on the London Underground network alone. Other estimates put the national tally far lower at 1.85m but it’s virtually impossible to clarify the figures with any degree of accuracy without checking every single property and street from Scotland...

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