
The social welfare deputy ministry was on Friday handed a €5,000 fine by data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou after it was found that three of the 19 CCTV cameras in operation at the deputy ministry’s building were illegally recording audio .
Nicolaidou said personnel from her office had carried out an on-site inspection following an anonymous complaint about the building’s CCTV system.
She added that the system’s capacity for