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