The Daily Mail reports on badges worn by civil enforcement officers that contain small digital video cameras to help protect staff and resolve disputes. Notification of the filming is on the badges themselves, and the footage can be used in court, the report states. Nick Pickles of Big Brother Watch said, "A tiny warning on a badge hardly constitutes telling someone they're being recorded...there is absolutely nothing to stop a council official or someone else with access to the video putting the footage online or releasing it to a third party." A representative from the software company that makes the device said the data is encrypted and a password is needed to access it, adding, "There is nothing covert about this device."
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