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A camera on a bracket, giving notice of video surveillance.
Also known as: Video surveillance sign, Security camera symbol, Camera on a bracket, Surveillance symbol
A camera on a wall bracket gives notice that an area is under video surveillance. Unlike most signs in this batch it exists largely for legal reasons — in many jurisdictions people must be told they are being recorded.
Gives notice that the area is monitored or recorded by closed-circuit television.
Contexts: Public information
Exists principally to inform rather than to instruct: many data protection regimes require that people be told they are being recorded, so the sign is part of how that notice is given.
What any particular regime requires of a surveillance notice is a legal question. Symbolwise describes the symbol and does not state the obligation.
Contexts: Public information
Is drawn as a boxy camera body on an angled bracket, a shape now well behind the technology — most surveillance cameras are domes or small fixed units that look nothing like it.
Contexts: Public information
Is a public information symbol rather than a safety sign, so it carries no shape-and-colour safety grammar. It identifies a facility and may be drawn in any colour that suits its setting.
Contexts: Public information
Rarely stands alone where data-protection law applies. In the United Kingdom and the European Union a camera sign is generally expected to name who is operating the system and why, and to say how to contact them, because the pictogram alone gives a person no way to exercise their rights. A bare camera icon is a sign that has been put up incompletely.
United Kingdom and European Union · Contexts: Public information
Related forms that are not treated as separate canonical symbols — see our variant rules.
Camera with an eye
A camera body with an eye drawn beside or inside it, used where the plain camera outline was thought too easily read as 'photography permitted'.
A rectangular camera body shown in profile pointing down and to one side, mounted on a short bracket set at a diagonal, with a round lens at the front.