The devices are being introduced to tackle anti-social behaviour and crime.
  • digdilem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    Strange. That seems to go against the Home Office’s own Code of Practice

    “13 3.2.2 Any proposed deployment that includes audio recording in a public place is likely to require a strong justification of necessity to establish its proportionality. There is a strong presumption that a surveillance camera system must not be used to record conversations as this is highly intrusive and unlikely to be justified”

    I hope they’ve taken good legal advice.

    • Mex@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      There are probably technical things they can do to reduce the risk, such as only actually record audio above a set audio pressure level.