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Video surveillance is a privacy-sensitive processing of personal data. As a data controller, you have several obligations towards those being monitored. Among other things, you need to ensure that you live up to the rights they have.

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As a private citizen you might want to use video surveillance on your property or close to your home or vehicle.

If you carry out video-surveillance you need to provide information regarding the surveillance in an intelligible and easily accessible way. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) lists a number of requirements of what this information needs to contain.

The following is a brief description of what anyone interested in the use of video-surveillance must consider.

Are you planning to use video surveillance? Organisations that use camera surveillance need to comply with the rules in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Camera Surveillance Act. The rules are different depending on who you are and which location is being filmed.

A personal data breach is a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.

If you think that someone is using camera surveillance unlawfully you can file a complaint to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) using our e-service.

If you think that someone is processing your personal data incorrectly you can file a complaint to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) using our e-service.