As BC’s businesses are struggling with crimes, violence and street disorders, the president of London drugs says that the company is “handcuffs” by privacy law that prevents it from sharing in-store attacks and protection footage of violent shoplifting.
In an interview at the Woodwards location of the chain on January 30, Clint Mahlman told Global News to Global News, “Privacy Commissioners take a very vague outlook on people to free surveillance.” On a daily basis, they will be afraid and they will demand a change faster than what they are. “
It was noted that he was sympathetic to retailers and he is experiencing shoplifting, BC information and privacy commissioner said that companies could not generally disclose information to people in a way that they collect.
Michael Harvey said, “We value our privacy in British Columbia differently and that is why we have that law.”
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Many private companies, including London drugs, collect surveillance video for security purposes.
Harvey told Global News, “Except for any advertisement other than that, as a general principle, with their consent and we do to save the privacy of the people,” Harvey told Global News.
The Privacy Commissioner said that businesses could publish a security video for law enforcement if it records a criminal code of violation or crimes.
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BC Conservative MLA and a public security critic Alenor Sturco, a former RCMP officer, said that retailers could obscure the suspicious identity on the footage of the security so that they taste the people they are facing.
“Stores are also in a difficult situation because they want to maintain a balance between pushing the government and trying not to scare every customer,” Sturko said in an interview.
London Drugs says it has lost more than $ 10 million in its place towards its wood, where Mahalman said customers seem unsafe due to the ongoing street disorder, while physical and oral violence against its employees have been unbearable for years.
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