Implementing Construction Site Documentation In Line With Data Protection Requirements
Do you want to monitor your construction site to document work progress or check compliance with occupational health and safety?
Anyone who relies on camera systems for the construction site must deal with the issue of data protection. After all, personal data is potentially collected during construction site documentation.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) defines how this data is to be handled. This is binding throughout the EU. To minimize the risk of legal conflicts, NetCo has considered data protection in all solutions from the very beginning.
- Keeping a construction diary and daily reports
- Supervision of the work
- Recording of the work status and comparison with the schedule
- Walk-throughs and documentation with pictures
- If necessary, review of occupational safety
As a general rule, construction site cameras must comply with legal data protection regulations. If the company can ensure this comprehensively, nothing stands in the way of using cameras for construction site documentation.
On a day-to-day basis, construction companies often face a problem: Conventional cameras do not offer the appropriate conditions to enable data protection-compliant use.
If you publish content that you have recorded with a commercially available camera on the construction site, this is usually a violation of the GDPR. Faces of workers or license plates of service providers are visible in pictures or videos. Moreover, if your construction site is located in the city center, it cannot be ruled out that public places were also filmed.
Such transgressions of the Data Protection Act have already led to high fines in the six-figure range in the past.
Using Cameras On The Construction Site In Compliance With Data Protection Regulations — But How?
When using cameras for documentation, it is imperative to observe the European General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR for short. At the moment when persons or license plates are clearly (!) identifiable, the legal regulations should be adhered to when using cameras and solutions should be used that guarantee data protection-compliant operation.
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Checklist GDPR Requirement For Construction Site Cameras:
- Purpose of the recordings: Is there a legitimate interest?
- Location of the camera significantly influences the necessary GDPR measures.
- Does the camera record public areas?
- Are persons in the image clearly identifiable?
- At what time interval are recordings made?
- Who has access to the stored recordings?
- How long are the recordings kept?
The Various Building Blocks Of The Solution Package From NetCo:
Anonymize persons:
A complex (AI) algorithm recognizes and distinguishes between people, cars and construction vehicles. People can be made unrecognizable by pixelation.
Avoid sensitive areas:
Public places, streets or buildings can be statically pixelated.
Free decision about the publication:
You decide where your recording will be published. Choose freely whether you want to publish it only internally, in your archive or on a public page.
Due to this complex situation around camera surveillance, the central question arises: How can you proceed with the construction site documentation in order to act within the legally set framework?
You need an intelligent solution that takes into account the requirements of the GDPR and still provides you with the desired data about your construction site.
It is important that the recordings of the construction site cameras are anonymized. This way, data that reveals personal content cannot be accessed. Especially if images are stored for longer than 72 hours, no personal content may be recognizable according to the GDPR.
- People are anonymized: An AI algorithm pixels faces or license plates — even in moving images.
- Public areas are made statically unrecognizable.
- BauTV+ is secure and access restricted. Data sovereignty remains with you at all times.
Modern Construction Site Documentation
Our construction site webcam offers you numerous possibilities:
- Precise construction site documentation: The modern camera solution enables you to work much more precisely in construction site documentation. Our BauTV+ software collects a variety of important data and prepares it for you.
- By default, the software saves an image of the construction site every 15 minutes. The construction progress is thus precisely recorded. Documentation by camera is the modern way to responsibly accompany your construction project.
- Inspection of occupational safety: The Safety and Health Coordinator also benefits from the digital recording of construction work. Close-meshed checks of occupational safety are possible regardless of location thanks to live transmission.
- Marketing: The collected image and video material serves as an impressive reference to your services. Download time-lapse films of your construction site at the click of a mouse and use them for public relations. In your personal online access for BauTV+, you will find real-time images and videos that are unproblematic from a GDPR point of view.
We Advise You On The Subject Of Construction Site Documentation
Have we sparked your interest? We would be happy to advise you personally and inform you about GDPR-compliant construction site documentation.
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