Source: The Register
By Jude Karabus
Question not whether UK police should use facial recognition, but how, says surveillance chief.
Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has warned that independent oversight of facial recognition is at risk just as the policing minister plans to “embed” it into the force.
He said this week that the widely slated use of facial recognition at the recent crowning of Charles III was “a glimpse into the future of policing,” but noted that new data protection measures being looked at in Parliament could scrap both his role and the rules governing the use of public space surveillance systems by police and local authorities.
Sampson’s job, if you were wondering, is to encourage “compliance with the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice” – the only legal instrument that addresses police use of live facial recognition directly. His office is independent of the government…
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