{"id":18467,"date":"2018-03-20T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=18467"},"modified":"2018-03-19T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:00:05","slug":"court-ruling-for-switching-off-cctv-at-times-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=18467","title":{"rendered":"Court ruling for switching off CCTV at times of worship\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Law_and_Religion_UK_website200318.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18468\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Law_and_Religion_UK_website200318.png\" alt=\"Law and Religion UK website\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>Churches now must switch off CCTV cameras during service as prayers should be private, a consistory court has recently ruled, a ruling believed to be the first made on the ethics of\u00a0<em>CCTV<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>church<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Law and Religion UK writes:<\/p>\n<p>Churches have been encouraged to install Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) as an aid to the security of their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecclesiastical.com\/churchmatters\/images\/pdf%20-%20church%20insurance%20guidance%20notes%20-%20security.pdf\">contents and personnel<\/a>, and in relation to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawandreligionuk.com\/2016\/07\/26\/places-of-worship-security-funding-scheme\/\">hate crime<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/places-of-worship-security-funding-scheme\">terrorist threats<\/a>. Until recently, the church courts\u2019 considerations of the installation of audio-visual equipment within a church have been restricted to petitions concerning projectors, screens, &amp;c. However, a recent judgment in the diocese of Canterbury has addressed the use and storage of CCTV footage, data protection, and recommended what criteria might be adopted in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xXkyai9a91\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lawandreligionuk.com\/2018\/03\/01\/cctv-in-churches-windows-into-mens-souls\/\">CCTV in Churches &#8211; windows into men&#8217;s souls?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;CCTV in Churches &#8211; windows into men&#8217;s souls?&#8221; &#8212; Law &amp; Religion UK\" src=\"https:\/\/lawandreligionuk.com\/2018\/03\/01\/cctv-in-churches-windows-into-mens-souls\/embed\/#?secret=q0sRyt4AcK#?secret=xXkyai9a91\" data-secret=\"xXkyai9a91\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See the article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/churches-must-switch-cctv-cameras-services-prayer-should-private\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches now must switch off CCTV cameras during service as prayers should be private, a consistory court has recently ruled, a ruling believed to be the first made on the ethics of\u00a0CCTV\u00a0in\u00a0church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18469,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions\/18469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}