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From: TT
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Gnosjö Municipality in Småland is forced to pay SEK 200,000 in fines for having an illegal surveillance camera of a person at an LSS residence.
This has been decided by the Data Inspection, following a complaint from a relative of the supervised person.
The municipality’s social commission has referred to the fact that the supervised person suffers from a disease that generates great difficulties for both him and the staff, and that life and health risk situations have arisen.
But the Data Inspectorate considers that despite this it was illegal to monitor the person in the bedroom with a camera.
“The surveillance with cameras has meant an excessive invasion of the personal integrity of the resident”, says Jeanette Bladh Gustafson, lawyer of the Swedish Data Inspectorate, in a press release.
Furthermore, the Data Inspectorate notes that those responsible have not clearly reported on the surveillance with cameras and that no impact assessment has been carried out.
LSS stands for the law of support and service for certain people with disabilities.
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