Published June 21, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Domestic. The Privacy Protection Authority, IMY, now finds that SL has violated the Data Protection Ordinance when ticket & shy; inspectors are equipped with body cameras that record images and sound. IMY issues an administrative sanction fee against SL of SEK 16 million.
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SL has equipped ticket controllers with body-worn cameras. The purpose of the cameras is to prevent threatening situations, document incidents that have occurred and ensure that the right person is fined for having traveled in Stockholm's local transport without a valid travel document.
The ticket inspectors' cameras continuously record images and sounds that are stored. for one minute, then the material is deleted unless the ticket controller presses the record button on the camera. The inspectors are instructed to wear the camera during their entire work shift and can thus film all travelers who pass the inspector.
– In Stockholm's public transport, several hundred thousand people travel daily. This technology with continuous recording means in practice that a large number of travelers risk being monitored with image and sound recording, says Jeanette Bladh Gustafson, lawyer at IMY's camera group.
IMY believes that the technology with body-worn cameras can be used to prevent and document threatening situations, but that the time for pre-recording needs to be reduced to a maximum of 15 seconds. However, the authority does not consider that the technology can be used to secure the identity of the person who traveled without a valid travel document, where instead, for example, still images and no sound recording are sufficient.
IMY also criticizes that SL has broken in its way to inform about the camera surveillance, among other things in terms of not only image but also sound being recorded.
– It is serious that SL does not inform that sound is recorded because passengers in SL's traffic network can not reasonably expect to be intercepted.
The overall shortcomings in how SL uses body cameras means that IMY issues an administrative sanction fee of SEK 16 million.