Remote monitoring and privacy behind child abuse

Last year, a spate of child abuse incidents triggered a netizen's denunciation. Among them, the Zhejiang Wenling Blue Peacock Kindergarten incident pushed the whole child abuse incident to a climax. Yan Yanhong, a female teacher, happily took a young child's ears and lifted it to the anger of the netizens provoked by a 20-cm photo off the ground and searched for human flesh. Subsequently, more than 700 photos of child abuse were exposed: Stick the tape on the mouth, put buckets, garbage buckets on the child's head, and even throw the child directly in the trash...

In the process of people's reflection on child safety, many people think of remote monitoring in the same way as how to ensure the safety of children in kindergartens. Remote monitoring refers to the installation of a monitoring system in the public activity area of ​​kindergartens, real-time video and instant communication through terminals such as mobile phones or the Internet, so that parents can keep track of their children's life and learning status in kindergarten. At present, many kindergartens in China have made such attempts and are generally welcomed by parents. However, some people have also raised objections to this and believe that remote monitoring will infringe the privacy of young children and teachers.

Can both monitoring and privacy have both?

Surveillance and privacy are commonplace topics in the security surveillance industry. Controversies persist. From the point of view of maintaining security, the role of monitoring is self-evident, and it is the monitoring function of monitoring that also makes it a tool for prying into the privacy of others. There are disagreements as to whether there are privacy issues with installation monitoring in kindergarten classrooms and activity areas. Some people think that classrooms and places of activity are public places where schools organize teaching. There are no privacy issues in school installation monitoring and management. There are also people who believe that schools are a specific occasion with a specific environment and a stable population. In general public places, installing surveillance on a specific occasion such as a school is an infringement of personal privacy. At present, there are no provisions in the law that clearly specify the details of the installation of monitoring systems on specific occasions. Therefore, the dispute between monitoring and privacy in kindergartens cannot be concluded at present.

Since the child abuse incident occurred, it has attracted much attention, and the call for monitoring installation in kindergartens also occupies a large proportion. Therefore, it can be speculated that installing monitoring in kindergartens for supervision and management will become a trend. Under such circumstances, privacy issues must be a problem that kindergartens must face and solve for a long period of time.

From the above analysis, to solve the privacy problem, we must first solve the definition of privacy. First, the law should have perfect legislation on the protection of personal privacy and personal information, and define the scope, power and protection of privacy rights. Second, set up detailed rules on the installation of monitoring systems on specific occasions. Secondly, privacy violations are mostly caused by the improper dissemination of surveillance videos. Therefore, video holders should be restricted to manage and control videos. Third, for the infringements that have occurred, responsibility should be investigated so that the rights of the parties can be effectively protected.