Hong Kong primary school pledges to remove unused CCTV cameras in classrooms after privacy row

Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten says the cameras are ‘inbuilt facilities’ of the school after a redevelopment project in 2009. CCTV has been installed for 12 years but has ‘never been and cannot be used’. — SCMP

A Hong Kong primary school at the centre of a privacy row has pledged to remove all surveillance cameras in classrooms although they have never been in operation, after controversy erupted over the installation of the devices without the knowledge of pupils or parents.

Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten stressed that the CCTV cameras were “inbuilt facilities” on campus and had already been fitted in classrooms after a redevelopment project in 2009.