On April 1, 2025, new rules will come into force.
Previously, activities that wanted to set up camera surveillance have needed approval from the Privacy Protection Authority (IMY). Now this requirement is abolished.
The responsibility to ensure that camera surveillance is allowed will be transferred from IMY to those who want to monitor, that is, municipalities, regions and authorities.
News24 have contacted contact with Jenny BårdHead of the camera surveillance unit at IMY, which clarifies what the new rules can mean.
– For other than activities that monitor with the support of the Crime Data Act or the Security Police Data Act, that is, the police, Säpo, the Customs, the Coast Guard and other law enforcement authorities, there will be no difference regarding how much camera surveillance is allowed, she says, and continues:
– The need to monitor must continue to weigh more heavily than the intrusion for individuals who are guarded. What we call monitoring interest versus privacy interest. More monitoring than today is not allowed for these actors.
In other words, the new rules impose neither more nor fewer demands that the privacy of persons be protected. On the contrary, surveillance must still meet the demands that are placed on integrity in society.
The biggest difference will be with law enforcement authorities, which will have greater opportunities to monitor in law enforcement activities.
– They are given new opportunities to monitor places that are of strategic importance to counteract serious crime or crime related to such crime, as well as places where there is a risk of extensive crime. Regarding these actors, the camera surveillance can thus increase, which is also the government’s wishes, Bård tells News24.