Security
Could some surveillance help crime deterrence? Is a total moratorium on CCTV facial recognition a necessary measure? When used responsibly and properly, perhaps not says the BSIA Crime deterrence is not an exact science, nor is using one security method over another. In general, the public and businesses need to be equipped to evaluate their own personal circumstances, especially with CCTV as a heightened news topic. The British Security Industry Association (BSIA), as the voice of the professional security industry, offers its members the opportunity to come together collectively to improve the industry. BSIA has been at the forefront of creating standards and codes of practice since the advent of video surveillance technology. Some examples include: privacy masking guide, chip and PIN guide, BS 8418, IEC 62676, Cyber Secure It, Cyber Security Guide, as stakeholder in the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s Buyers Toolkit (privacy impact assessment), and submission of evidence to the select committee examining
operated by private enterprises and b) the relationship between the citizen and when used to prevent or solve the state during the readings of the crimes this was being done for Protection of Freedom’s Act. the greater good of society. In previous BSIA research A number of highit was determined that There is profile cases have only one in 70 cameras a large been solved or in the UK are owned helped through the by the government for focus o public n privac use of evidence the purpose of public d y, ata and extracted from safety, the remainder its use across a video surveillance are privately owned l l platfo systems. This and operated under the r ms and pu evidence was scope of the operational b l i c l y accessib extracted by the requirements of the le place police using standard owners. When the report s in the U methods developed was published it allayed K by the BSIA and Home previous fears that UK was Office to ensure consistency ‘sleepwalking into a surveillance and acceptance into the criminal state’ - comments made by the justice process. In the UK these cases have Information Commissioner. The public included preventing mainland IRA activity, sentiment towards video surveillance is finding missing persons, and according now that a) it is generally owned and Issue 27.2 | GOVERNMENT BUSINESS MAGAZINE
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