The department school has installed thermal cameras to combat the spread of Covid-19. The Council of State ordered the withdrawal of its use. the st
The department school has installed thermal cameras to combat the spread of Covid-19. The Council of State ordered the withdrawal of its use.
The Council of State ordered on Friday in the municipality of Essonne to stop the use of thermal imaging cameras installed in schools to combat the spread of Covid-19, evaluating the processing of data without consent.
Seized by the League for Human Rights (LDH), the Council of State “ordered the ordinary Smooth to stop the use of thermal imaging cameras that had been installed in schools.” “It is appreciated that they clearly violate the right to respect for the privacy of students and employees, unlike the fixed camera installed in the municipal building, the use of which is not mandatory.”
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In the context of the spread of the new coronavirus epidemic, Ordinary Smooths -more than 7,500 people- decided on April 17 to install fixed and mobile thermographic cameras in the administration offices and at the entrances to primary schools. The League for Human Rights (LDH) denounced the “processing of personal data” carried out “without informed consent”.
Last week, Cnil, the French personal data gendarme, already warned against the use of high-speed and unmonitored cameras, by local authorities or companies, designed to measure temperatures, control mask openings or guarantee respect for social distancing, as part of the fight against Covid-19.
“Gain”
“It is a real victory that aims to provide a judicial practice (…) beyond the usual,” replied the lawyer of the human rights league, Patrice Spinosi. “European law has imposed a solution. We cannot do anything with the new digital tools under the pretext that we want to guarantee people’s health,” he said.
At Tuesday’s hearing, the mayor of Smooth, Thierry Lafon, and the municipality’s lawyer, Claire Waquet, argued that it was a strictly local decision “in the context of the fight against the epidemic” to protect municipal and school employees. They pointed out that no parent of student complained and pointed out that “there is no data storage”, questioning the “processing of personal data”. However, this “processing” of data is the punishment of the State Council.
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the judge hearing the Petition finds that teachers and students “must submit to this temperature measurement in order to gain access to the property and that an abnormal result results in a request to leave the premises.”
“It can be concluded that the collection of health data is an automated processing of personal data within the meaning of the GDPR (general data protection regulation, reference text, at European level). In the absence of a specific text that justifies the use of these cameras for public health reasons and in the absence of the consent of students and staff, the conditions to enable such data processing are not met.
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Therefore, the judge considers that the joint invasion of Smooth Gate “is clearly illegal with the right to respect the privacy of students and staff, which includes the right to the protection of personal data and the freedom to come and go”.
Update date: June 26, 2020, 16:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn