One-page printable starter guide for framing a surveillance deployment before procurement: the two-regimes distinction (recording video = personal data, GDPR Art. 4(1); running biometrics = special-category data, Art. 9), the data-minimisation levers with their legal anchors (purpose, privacy zones, resolution, disabled analytics, retention, scoped access — Art. 5(1)(c)/25(2)), the DPIA-trigger quick test (Art. 35(3)(b)/(c)), the seven privacy-by-design principles mapped to GDPR Art. 25, and a p
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This starter guide frames a surveillance deployment before procurement: the two GDPR regimes, data-minimisation levers, the DPIA trigger test and privacy-by-design principles. Our seven volumes cover the video stack; Volume 7 is the place to start for regulation, the EU AI Act and biometrics, with Volume 6 on computer vision and Volume 1 on encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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