Guidance

Security considerations for requests to photograph sites

Advice for businesses on how to ensure street view imagery does not compromise security.

• From: National Counter Terrorism Security Office
• Published: 2 July 2014

This publication was withdrawn on 15 May 2020

This information is to be contained within the Crowded Places guidance

Documents

Guidance note 1/2014: street view imagery (3D imagery mapping)

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Guidance for business and industry experts on ensuring that companies who wish to photograph and map publicly accessible sites using street view imagery or 3D imagery mapping do so securely.

This advice suggests how site security should be considered, including conducting due diligence checks on the companies and having agreement that CCTV cameras should not be shown in the images, when necessary.

Published 2 July 2014