EU Twinning Project Experts in collaboration with NCPDP, organized a training course “Personal data protection and video surveillance”

On 12-13 December 2019, EU Twinning Project Experts “Capacity Building of the National Center for Personal Data Protection”, in collaboration with NCPDP, organized a training course “Personal data protection and video surveillance”. The event was hosted by IT Center, Tekwill.
About 185 representatives of public and private institutions attended the course, given the increased interest in this topic, in the context of the last sanctions applied by the NCPDP for the non-compliant processing of personal data through video surveillance systems. Among the institutions that participated in this training course the following can be nominated: State Chancellery, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, Information Technology and Cyber Security Service, National Archives, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Moldova Agroindbank, Orange Moldova, Moldcell, Metro Moldova, etc.
The training course, moderated by the EU Twinning Project Expert, Ian Deguara, and NCPDP representative, Victoria Butușanu, main state inspector, Legal Department, aimed at addressing the topics related to the personal data protection and video surveillance and the impact that the new draft law on personal data protection will generate.
The EU expert, Ian Deguara, mentioned that „Video surveillance should take place taking into account more aspects. Before installing video surveillance devices, you should ask yourself, when, where and for what purpose should I install video surveillance cameras? If we are talking about an apartment block, you have to obtain the consent of the owners, if we are talking about a public space, they have to be installed in such a way that they do not capture the private property near or the access area of the neighbors, etc.”. At the same time, the EU expert addressed topics such as: the notion of applicability, accountability principle, the use of video cameras for domestic purposes, fake cameras, recording for an altitude, vehicle reversing cameras, necessity of processing and proportionality, the legal basis for data processing, the disclosure of footage to third parties, transparency obligation, the right of access, the storage period of recordings, the security of data processing and data protection impact assessment.
NCPDP representative, Victoria Butușanu, spoke about the new draft law, the rights of data subjects, the concept of “controller” and “processor”, the principles of personal data processing, thus providing a number of practical examples.
The training course was conducted within the EU Twinning Project “Capacity building of the National Center for Personal Data Protection”, funded by European Union. The project is implemented between October 2017 and January 2020 by the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (IRZ) and the Ministry of Justice of Latvia.