The National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) issued a favorable opinion on the GNR’s request to use a portable video surveillance in forest areas considered priorityfor fire prevention.
The opinion, published on the CNPD page dated July 29, indicates that the images will be used by the security forces and services and the National Civil Protection Authority, valid until October 31.
At stake is the use of a video surveillance system that aims to guarantee “forest protection and the detection of rural fires in the forest areas of the municipalities and parishes identified as priority, according to the classification of the Institute for Forest Conservation.
According to the opinion, the system consists of nine portable cameras that will be attached to piloted aircraft (drones).
The areas subject to video surveillance supported by this equipment correspond to forest areas and uninhabited areas, in shadow areas of surveillance posts and in areas where other forms of surveillance are not accessible, in order to guarantee adequate coverage of the risk areas, shaded areas and areas with a greater history of occurrences and forest fires”, reads the document.
The CNPD also justifies the positive opinion on this request with the fact that the video surveillance system focuses “only on uninhabited forest areas, with very difficult or impossible access by land, where, therefore, there will be, in principle, no capture of images”. of people”, since the objective is not “to detect or trace individuals”.
Source: Observadora
