This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Privacy Commissioner of B.C. has asked the Victoria Police Department to alter its routine of using the automated license plate-recognition cameras, in view of the worries about cyber threats which could shape such data as a mass surveillance technique.
Elizabeth Denham declared that Victoria Police Department has been breaching the province’s privacy law by gathering, and sharing with the RCMP, information of innocent people who are involuntarily being recorded by license plate cameras. She strictly suggested that Victoria PD and other relevant B.C. police forces delete the data which is called “non-hit” data of people who weren’t meant to be recorded as they are not suspects, and hence haven’t committed any crime or infraction.
Denham asserted that “over time, the police could accumulate a large database that does describe the geolocations, or whereabouts, of many individuals, the vast majority of whom are just going about their routine daily activities.” She alleged that “that should be of no interest to police.”
Victoria PD routinely submits the ‘non-hit data’ to the RCMP every day. Even though the RCMP claims that it deletes the data within 30 minutes, it has once shared publicly that it is considering to save that information, as it could be used as a massive record of the times and locations of thousands of drivers. The Mounties had a stance that it could be used as a system to check people’s alibis if they were ever accused of a crime in the future. Denham warned that it is totally against the law. Whereas Justice Minister Shirley Bond also assured that the B.C. government will not support the idea either.
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