zenoshrdlu said:I think Simon's treading on thin ice when he says that if there's no card in the camera then the craft is not a SUSA. It may not be recording up there, but it is transmitting video to a phone or tablet down on the ground. And that might be seem to be surveillance as far as the CAA are concerned.
The thing I find most curious about all this is that in general the CAA regs are about safety, but the SUA/SUSA distinction is not about safety but about privacy, something the CAA have never bothered about before.
Disagree, surveillance is a directed activity for a purpose for a use ,,targeted, sending your phantom up to photograph the local church with people who happen to walk into your picture is not surveillance
I will try to expand a little, who uses surveillance most?
Police and local authorities , not the CAA.
How is surveillance defined in law? My above post re RIPA defines the rules for types of surveillance
Your local CCTV in town is not directed surveillance as it is not targeting individuals or anything specific , if an event happens ie a theft and the operator then scans through and finds the individual it's still not surveillance but the footage then would fall under data protection as it's being used for a purpose ie law enforcement.
However If the CCTV was specifically to target an individual and follow him/her and it was pre planned it would fall under surveillance and rips.
I hate typing surveillance