Penalty against True Vision Productions

Penalty against True Vision Productions

True Vision Productions produces programs for various TV stations. For a report on stillbirths, the company installed surveillance cameras in examination rooms at a clinic. The clinic operator has agreed to this measure. Patients were informed via notices and information sheets in the waiting area, but there was no personal education about the filming.

The footage was deleted in the following cases:

• the patient did not have a stillbirth
• the patient has not given subsequent consent to the publication of the recordings

The British Data Protection Commission criticized the fact that the filming took place without explicit consent and that there was no way to stop the recordings if a patient noticed the cameras and did not consent to the filming.

Entscheidungsdatum:
10.04.2019

Land:
Great Britain

Art des Verstoßes:
violated duty to inform

Betroffene Datensätze:
1990

Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
Yes

verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 140,000,-

Quelle:
Communication from the UK data protection authority ICO (English)