CCTV

Part of the Košice workshop was also an investigation [and if possible mapping] of CCTV cameras: where they are placed, to what purpose, who controls them and whether they are marked or not. In Slovakia and European Union there are strict laws concerning video surveillance policy regarding issues from data protection to notifying the public about the surveillance site. But not everybody respects the law – herefore we created customs stickers to mark the hidden cameras and help citizens and institutions be legal, on one hand, and be informed on the other. The stickers display the phrase that Slovak law recommends to use when notifying public about video surveillance: ““Priestor je monitorovaný kamerovým systémom””.

* City itself, the representative and reinforcer of law, doesn’t mark CCTV

* private companies rate highest in the chart of non-informing/illegalCCTV-system subjects

* [above and previous] we found our stickers “remixed’ in unexpected locations

by Ana Filip