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Europe Data Protection Digest | Proposal for Home Office to regulate health care surveillance rejected Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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The U.K. Home Office has rejected Surveillance Camera Commissioner Tony Porter's request to monitor the increasing use of both body-worn and CCTV cameras in hospitals, the Guardian reports. After his letter was released this week, it became clear that Porter "had warned ministers last year that the privacy of millions of NHS patients was put at risk by the unchecked use of the cameras," the report states. "Despite our best attempts, voluntary adoption [of surveillance oversight] has not worked … and it will be difficult without government intervention," he wrote. However, the response from Home Office Minister Brandon Lewis stated “We had not exhausted the possibilities of increasing voluntary compliance.” Porter said that while the Home Office rejected his request, he would continue "to work with government to look at how we can encourage NHS trusts and hospitals to voluntarily adopt the surveillance camera code of practice."
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