{"id":1746,"date":"2025-01-07T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:45:31","slug":"saudi-arabia-enforces-ban-on-publishing-surveillance-camera-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/2025\/01\/07\/saudi-arabia-enforces-ban-on-publishing-surveillance-camera-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Enforces Ban on Publishing Surveillance Camera Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Riyadh:<\/strong> The Saudi Ministry of Interior has announced a strict prohibition on recording and publishing footage from surveillance cameras without legal authorization. In a notice issued on January 6, 2025, the ministry emphasized that this regulation aligns with the provisions of the &#8216;Use of Security Surveillance Cameras&#8217; law.<\/p><p>Under the law, copying or sharing such footage requires prior approval from the Presidency of State Security Ministry, which may be granted only in response to a court order or investigative agency request. Violators face a fine of 20,000 riyals, with the same penalty applicable to those who destroy surveillance cameras or tamper with recorded footage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh: The Saudi Ministry of Interior has announced a strict prohibition on recording and publishing footage from surveillance cameras without legal authorization. In a notice issued on January 6, 2025, the ministry emphasized that this regulation aligns with the provisions of the &#8216;Use of Security Surveillance Cameras&#8217; law. Under the law, copying or sharing such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-saudi-en"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}