The Department of Justice is continuing to provide funding to local authorities for community CCTV schemes despite the Data Protection Commissioner announcing an investigation of such projects. So far it has received 25 applications from interested local authorities, including 14 in the last month. There are currently 35 Garda CCTV schemes in operation around the country comprising of 500 cameras. However, some local authorities have paused their applications for funding because of concerns over who will act as the “data controller” for such schemes. A number of local authorities wouldn’t have capacity to act as data controller for multiple sites.

Source: The Irish Times June 10, 2018 23:15 UTC