Three legal bases, one choice
Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, Section 4 BDSG or a state-law provision: the three routes are mutually exclusive, so one is chosen rather than several ticked. For the latter two the exact reference is mandatory.
Data protection
Video surveillance
The installation is the leading object, not the camera
A camera register that merely counts devices does not help a data protection officer. What is assessed is not the camera but the surveillance measure: the German data protection authorities’ guidance asks about purpose and legal basis for each measure. In this register the installation is therefore the leading object, with the cameras attached to it. Locations, rooms, organisational units and people are referenced rather than maintained a second time.
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Features
Your benefits
No purpose, no installation
The purpose is a mandatory field on the installation. That follows chapter 2.1 of the guidance: there is no such thing as surveillance "just in case", and therefore no register entry without a stated purpose.
The field of view in words
On the camera the field of view is mandatory, because it is the basis of every necessity assessment under chapter 2.2.2. Alongside it, the type of area covered, ordered by intrusiveness rather than alphabetically.
Disabled audio is not a checkbox
Chapter 4.2 requires audio recording to be irreversibly disabled, with Section 201 of the German Criminal Code in view. A toggle does not evidence that, so the field is free text: it asks how it was disabled, not whether someone asserts it.
Capabilities
All capabilities at a glance
- Installation as the leading object with purpose, legal basis and reference
- Cameras with field of view, viewing direction and position
- Type of area covered, ordered by intrusiveness
- Evidence of irreversibly disabled audio recording as text, not as a toggle
- Dummy cameras in the register but excluded from every metric
- Locations, rooms, organisational units and people referenced rather than duplicated
- Cockpit, four dashboard tiles and global search with deep links
- Entry in the instance’s privacy notice overview
- Shipped as an opt-in module
Result
A register that answers the supervisory authority’s questions in the same order the guidance asks them.
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