TOCcade more and more often, almost everywhere. You enter a shop, in a supermarket, in a shopping center and The surveillance cameras resume every move, they understand the movements. The goal is declared: prevent theft or identify those who instead have already managed to steal it. The problem is that the use of the system is not limited to this. On the contrary.
Just read the “call” that the Privacy Guarantor Authority sent to Confcommercio in early August to find out how high the level of intrusions reported by all of Italy is. The note issued by the control body contains important details: “The most frequent violations concerned the absence of information signs, the use of cameras episodes on public areas or other people’s properties, in some cases unauthorized audio recordings and conservation of images beyond the time limits allowed.
More serious cases in which the cameras were even used to control employees, without respecting the guarantees provided for by the workers’ statute “. The cases discovered by the Guardia di Finanza and the local police during the checks carried out have made it possible to ascertain serious violations so much so that There are thousands of merchants fined for not complying with the rules.
Fiorenza Sarzanini (photo by Carlo Vangi Gilbert).
But the sanctions still appear limited compared to the damage that the customer can suffer when he is taken up and his images remain in the archives or they can even be sold for illegal purposes. To make concrete examples, a merchant who had not asked the inspectorate authorization for the installation of the cameras that resumed employees paid 3 thousand euros, from 2 thousand to 6 thousand euros instead paid other owners of shops or companies open to the public who had not posted the sign to notify that the room was video surveillance.
The risks, as you can well imagine after the discovery of pornographic sites that use images caught at random on the web, are very high. After the letter of the Guarantor in Confcommercio, he made himself available to “monitor any abuse and irregularities and raise awareness of his associates on the correct use of these control systems in full and absolute respect for privacy”. It is to be hoped that we go beyond these good intentions.
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