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UK government is claiming police forces’ use of live facial recognition is comprehensively covered by existing laws, in response to a Lords investigation that found police lacked a clear legal basis to deploy it.| ComputerWeekly.com
Criminal bar association calls for information about the reliability of communications data used in criminal trials to be disclosed. Police forces are checking over 18 months of mobile phone data records following warnings of errors in data supplied to police and intelligence services by the mobile phone company O2.| ComputerWeekly.com
Open legal questions around how UK police are using facial recognition and cloud technology could undermine the £230m investment committed in the Spring Budget to “time and money-saving technology” for police.| ComputerWeekly.com
The government’s procurement arm is under fire again, after prospective suppliers to the G-Cloud 14 framework raised complaints about CCS’s quality control procedures| ComputerWeekly.com
The UK data regulator told the Scottish biometrics watchdog that, despite major data protection concerns raised, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information sharing agreement with the US government, before claiming to Computer Weekly the processing is legal if unspecified ‘protections’ are in place| ComputerWeekly.com
Scotland’s biometrics watchdog has issued Police Scotland with an information notice over its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence system, following disclosure of major data protection concerns by Computer Weekly.| ComputerWeekly.com
The UK biometrics commissioner has warned that policing and justice bodies must be able to demonstrate “immediately and unequivocally” that their cloud deployments are lawful, especially given the sheer volume of sensitive biometric information being moved onto cloud infrastructure owned by US companies| ComputerWeekly.com
Scottish policing bodies are pressing ahead with a data sharing pilot despite clear and ongoing data protection issues around the use of US cloud providers, placing sensitive personal data of tens of thousands of people at risk, including witnesses and victims of crime.| ComputerWeekly.com
The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts.| ComputerWeekly.com
There’s a conflict between cloud storage and the need to comply with local laws and regulations. We look at cloud data location, data residency, data sovereignty and data adequacy.| ComputerWeekly.com
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