Vumacam, a subsidiary of fibre infrastructure company Vumatel, is installing CCTV cameras on the streets of Johannesburg’s suburbs. It plans to roll out 15 000 of them across the city within the next 12 months.
In addition, it says the existing network is often “unmanaged, not maintained, and there was often no awareness of whether the system was down until footage was required”. Attorney and cyber security expert Natasha Moni said the roll-out plan would not sit well with ordinary citizens and that one should weigh up the purpose of the private company’s intentions to pursue its goal.
“This cannot be done by a corporate citizen set up to make money. What happens if the cameras collect information that is not necessarily about crime? Could this be sold, could this be used against our citizens? Another cyber security expert, Dustin van der Haar, with the University of Johannesburg, said there were two sides to this case. He said on the one hand, there were benefits that came with the introduction of video surveillance as a service solution, pointing to cities such as Barcelona and London and a large portion of China using similar systems.
On the other hand, he says: “In our context, there are laws [such as section 14 of the constitution, Popi and Rica], which would be applicable to video surveillance, but I am not aware of a specific policy that would define a code of practice for video surveillance on the grassroots level.
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