UK: Private Video Surveillance Complaints Down Since GDPR

By Charles Rollet, Published on Jan 09, 2019

The arrival of the GDPR on May 25, 2018, brought fears the law would spark a massive increase in privacy complaints about security camera use. However, new statistics, prepared by IPVM from UK government information requests, show that complaints about domestic camera use – a popular grievance category – have actually declined.

This decline adds to evidence that the GDPR has not unleashed the wave of frivolous video surveillance complaints many feared would happen, even cutting red tape in some cases.

In this post, we examine:

Video Surveillance Complaints Data
Comparison of Complaints
Explanation for Decline
Other Types of Video Surveillance Complaints
Is the GDPR Overblown?

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