Matt Hancock has been the talk of the town over the last couple of weeks following the viral video that circulated social media of him and Gina Colandangelo sharing a ‘moment’ together in his office. Hancock has since been the latest hashtag on Twitter and the focus on memes and has faced backlash on breaking social distancing measures.
All jokes aside, the video recording taken from Hancock’s CCTV has brought up some interesting questions on personal security.
CCTV supporters would argue if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
But what about the laws that are meant to protect people from such a public breach of privacy?
There are a number of ways the breach occurred and with no public statement emerging yet we are free to guess.
Was the CCTV camera installed without the Matt Hancock’s knowledge? Was he was unaware that he was being monitored? This in itself would constitute a breach as monitoring staff without their knowledge can only be conducted in exceptional circumstances and should be part of overt or targeted surveillance operations.
A more likely scenario, Mr Hancock knew about the camera and trusted CCTV operatives within the building to comply with his right to privacy.
And so the question is - was its one man’s fault (and we are not talking only about the minister), or was it a systematic breach of data protection within the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)?
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