Article L.2251-4-1 of the French Transport Code states that “SNCF Railway Security officers may use body cameras to record their actions when an incident has occurred or may occur, given the context or the behaviour of the persons involved. The purpose of the recording is to prevent incidents from occurring during interactions (...).”

Those recordings may be used:

• For real-time monitoring by a control centre
• For judicial and administrative purposes

Articles L.4121-1 and L.4122-2 of the French Labour Code require employers to provide a safe working environment for all employees and to take account of all potential risks at source.

Body cameras help create a safe working environment by addressing the risk of aggression against employees.

SNCF’s Railway Security division provides its employees with body cameras. 

The entity responsible for processing your personal data is the Direction des Opérations de la Sûreté Ferroviaire, 116 rue de Maubeuge, 75010 Paris.

The legal basis for using your data is our public-interest mission, which includes the work of our Railway Security division to keep people safe in our stations and aboard our trains.

The data we process include audio-visual data and the time and date of the recording.

This data is retained for 1 month from the date on which it is recorded. 

It is used solely by individuals responsible for processing it in the course of their duties, and may be released only to authorities with a legal right of access. 

We process data from the cameras for the following purposes:

• To prevent incidents when SNCF security officers need to intervene
• To gather evidence of offences and prosecute perpetrators
• In response to official government requests
• To support Railway Security officer training

Cameras are deployed across all Railway Security entities.

Data are hosted in France. They are never transferred outside the European Union.

The data referred to here are not used for any automated decision-making.

All data subjects have the right, under the terms and within the limits provided by law, to ask the data controller for access to their personal data. They also have the right to rectification and erasure, and the right to restrict or oppose processing of their data.

To exercise your rights, please provide proof of identity and write to the unit responsible for processing your data:

Direction de la Sûreté, CNSF, 116 rue de Maubeuge, 75010 PARIS – [email protected]

After contacting us, if you believe that the processing of your data violates the law, you have the right to submit a claim to the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL).