“Mehmet Akif”, record students with cameras in toilets

The Constitutional Court in Pristina, according to findings from the agency's inspection, sentenced Mehmet Akif College to 12,000 euros for privacy violations through camera surveillance.

At the announcement of the State Agency for the Protection of Personal Data said that at the request of the Agency, initiated on May 05th 2016, for the start of the anti-vasive procedure against the College Mehmet Akifı, on February 09th 2018, the Centre Court's Counter-ordination Division in Pristina, pronounced the fine of $12,000 for illegal processing of personal data through camera surveillance systems in spaces that are not allowed to install cameras.

Agency officials, during the inspection conducted in May 2016, had found that this college had installed cameras in workspaces, such as offices, classes of learning, and sanitation.

This method of processing personal data through camera surveillance conflicts with provisions 62 and 64 of the Law for the Protection of Personal Data and as such constitutes violations of individual privacy.

The report says that camera surveillance is allowed only if it is considered necessary for people's safety and property security, as well as at the entrances of buildings, but not even in the internal working spaces, the less in sanitation, respectively. /Telegraphy/