In 2009, Identity Trust conducted consent and notice research with three objectives:
1. To study secrecy in surveillance: Measuring Consent & Notice in London
2. Develop a methodology to measure the degrees of legality and trust of CCTV Consent & Notice
3. Gain a deeper understanding of Consent & Notice in Society
- This research was apart of a cross disciplinary MSc Social Science Research dissertation conducted by Mark Lizar.
- This involved survey London councils with Freedom of Information Requests to find the leas transparency borough for notice and consent
- This involved picking a sample in Hammersmith & Fulham to go and record every camera, and every CCTV
- This involved appealing the Hammersmith & Fulham FOIA decisions to the Information Commisisoners (ICO)
- This involved designing trust metrics to see what companies are the least trustworthy
- This involved an analysis of Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s CCTV Practices
