The Tribunal examined whether a council’s use of covert CCTV trained on a communal area to detect persistent dog fouling constituted directed surveillance against an individual for which an authorisation under RIPA should have been obtained. It upheld the case against the council, concluding that the facts of that particular case, including the positioning of the covert camera, showed that the activity had breached the Complainant’s Article 8 rights.
Citations:
[2008] UKIPTrib 03 – 50
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Police, Human Rights
Updated: 19 May 2022; Ref: scu.525989