Covert video surveillance continues to provoke debate.

Covert video surveillance--an assessment of the Staffordshire protocol.

An assessment of a protocol devised to guide practitioners thinking of using covert video surveillance. Such surveillance is particularly used to help identify cases of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy. The protocol in question has been written by staff at the Academic Department of Paediatrics, North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent in association with their local Area Child Protection Com...

overview of ways to enhance the security of video surveillance networks using blockchain

In recent decades, video surveillance systems have an increasing development that are used to prevent crime and manage facilities with rapid diffusion of  (CCTV)cameras to prevent crime and manage facilities. The video stored in the video surveillance system should be managed comfortably, but sometimes the movies are leaking out to unauthorized people or by unauthorized people, thus violating i...

Covert video surveillance: the Staffordshire Protocol--a response to Dr Shinebourne.

This paper is a response to Dr Shinebourne's response to my recent paper assessing the relative merits of the Staffordshire Protocol on covert video surveillance. Dr Shinebourne does not take the opportunity to rebut the criticisms made of the text of the protocol. It is further suggested that judicial oversight of the use of CVS might accord the process a degree of proportionality.

Covert video surveillance and the principle of double effect: a response to criticism.

In some young children brought by their parents for diagnosis of acute life-threatening events investigations suggested imposed apnoea as the cause rather than spontaneous occurrence. Covert video surveillance of the cot in which the baby was monitored allowed confirmation or rebuttal of this diagnosis. That parents were not informed of the video recording was essential for diagnosis and we ass...

Covert video surveillance of children. Role of police.