– Oi, is that true? It’s a bit scary, says Hege Bellika Hansen.
She and Karl Skeimo on tour in the city center.
In 2008, a group of students from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences ( NMBU) in Ås around and counted surveillance cameras in Oslo. They found 941 cameras within Ring 2 in the center. Then they took not with 397 surveillance cameras at Oslo S.
Only 581 of the cameras was clearly marked with warning about TV-monitored area.
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Want less monitoring
There has hardly been fewer cameras since the census in 2008, but exactly how many people have been deployed, and where they stand , no one has knowledge of.
Professor Hans Ekkehard Plesser who led the study, says that they have not made new counts ever since. Also Inspectorate stated that they do not know the newer numbers.
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Both Plesser and audit reminiscent that technology has become both better and cheaper since 2008. Not least, systems for facial recognition more efficient. It opens up new questions about privacy.
There is no public register for surveillance cameras in Norway. Anyone who sets up cameras are obliged to report this to the Inspectorate, but it is done in about 20 percent of cases, estimates Authority.
City council is worried
Now take council in Oslo calling for a tightening of the rules.
– We want people to escape being monitored only those taking a tour of the city, said city councilor for environment and transport, Guri Melby (V).
In a memo to the Inspectorate she asks for that requirements to who should be allowed to set up cameras. She will also have clearer labeling of sites monitored.
– I do not think everyone is aware of how prevalent such monitoring is. We wish list of places that have camera surveillance in Oslo. We need more knowledge about the boundary between what is for your safety and what is commercial use.
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Melby believes use of watchmen, locking and access control in many cases can replace security cameras.
– Monitoring provides no immediate safety of people who live in the streets. It does however more police. In Oslo we have now got their own Oslo Guards who will help to make streets safer, says Melby.
Do not have application duty
– A surveillance camera is a radical measure. There must be good reasons for setting it up, says Director Kim Ellertsen the Inspectorate.
But some permission to set up the camera, you do not.
– No, special permits shared not out. Owners of buildings where cameras are set up, is responsible for ensuring that the law is followed. Moreover, it is an unconditional requirement that it be marked. Photographs are personal information about you, and you shall know that others get to grips with, say Ellertsen.
Inspectorate based control of the samples.
– It is possibly time for revision, concede Ellertsen.
– The current regulations and reporting system is based on the Personal Data Act of 2000. Now the EU in the process of developing a new privacy legislation, and when it comes, we can see what guidelines you relate to the rest of Europe.
Ellertsen agree that the threshold for setting up cameras may be perceived as somewhat low.
– The label should tell clearly who the owner is and who to contact if you have question. Often it only stands Securitas, which was certainly not the owner.
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One in five reported in
Inspectorate estimates that only one of five surveillance cameras have been reported.
– I think it comes that of people simply do not know the rules. They are not aware that there is notification, says Director of Inspectorate, Bjorn Erik Thon.
A regime with greater control and application duty he does not believe in.
– It would have been enormously resource intensive both for us and the entrepreneurs who then must sit down and write applications, says Thon. He will nonetheless follow up the City Government inquiry.
– It is interesting that the city council is committed to reducing the use of surveillance cameras. We will talk further with them to find out what they and we can do to prevent unnecessary use of such cameras in Oslo. We see that some municipalities eager very camera of the police, but if Oslo wants to go the opposite way, it is positive.
Will provide better guidance
Thon believes information measures, for example via business community’s member organizations, is the way to go. Security industry and Inspectorate are in the process of developing an industry norm to see that businesses increasingly follow regulations.
– We envisage that this could lead to new guidance material on camera use, ranging from storage to when you can actually use camera surveillance and how the cameras can be protected against hacking, says Thon.
The work will start in the fall, and the goal is to be ready for Christmas.
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