CCTV website rapped on privacy

Article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13765136
The website called ‘internet eyes’ allows the public to report crime seen via CCTV footage, and offers rewards up to a thousand pounds for spotting crimes on that footage. Changes has been demanded from the Information Commissioner’s Office, since footage from this service have been found on Youtube. CCTV of a person is considered to be personal data, so this would be a violation of someone’s privacy. The firm is now required to check  who is watching the footage, and the footage itself has to be ‘encrypted’ which makes it impossible to share the video footage on other sites like Youtube.
Opinion
I find myself very interested in articles concerning CCTV, since I find CCTV very fascinating. The idea of filming almost an entire country seems crazy to me, and I’m sure that a lot of Dutch will think that only the taking of footage while they are doing their shopping is a violation of their privacy. That’s why it seems very strange to me that the ‘internet eyes’ website was so careless with the footage in the first place, especially when CCTV footage of a person is personal data, I don’t think anyone in the public should be able to see the footage, but should only be shown to the police, or some other kind of professionals.