Police unlawfully spied on children as young as 10 taking part in a climate strike protest in London, documents have shown.were rebuked by the information commissioner’s office for video surveillance of the March 2019 protest, which was attended by up to 10,000 children and young people.
“Our complaint and the information commissioner’s subsequent action sets an important precedent protecting children from unjustified political surveillance,” said Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch. Big Brother Watch complained to the Met after witnessing the officers filming children on the protest. The information commissioner launched an investigation for a potential breach of the Data Protection Act 2018, which found the Met had acted unlawfully.
Data protection documentation had been updated, the approach to the retention of footage reviewed, and a new organisation-wide approach to data protection training implemented, the force said. The ICO did not publicise the reprimand when it was first issued in June 2020. A spokesperson for the watchdog said that in the past it did not routinely publish reprimands, but had begun to do so.
just how threatened does the status quo establishment feel , if school kiddies and individuals have them soiling their pants then it will be a shock whem the mobs find out we lost the climate race because of them ,