Rijkswaterstaat will install dozens of intelligent traffic control installations (iVRIs). The Dutch Metropolitan Innovations (DMI) ecosystem announced this recently.
"An iVRI cannot track a vehicle or person. Each traffic light is assigned a temporary random code per vehicle, per passage on direct approach, which disappears/ expires after the vehicle has passed the iVRI. The same vehicle will receive a different random code each time at successive traffic lights," according to a memo from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works.
The ministry points out that smart traffic lights combined with conventional traffic cameras, ANPR cameras and induction loops could be at odds with the AVG. The Personal Data Authority (AP) previously warned against the deployment of tracking traffic lights, as the AP calls these iVRIs.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has entered into discussions with the AP on the privacy aspect of the deployment of iVRIs. "The conclusion is that the AP's main concern is not so much the safeguarding of privacy in relation to iVRIs and the iVRId data chain. The main concern is whether road authorities are sufficiently aware of the privacy risks that arise from combining and storing, by and within their own organization, data about people in public spaces. The question is then whether they have acted accordingly," the ministry said.
Click here for the memo from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
Click here for DMI's message.
