Police Scotland’s new strategy outlines how the force will approach and invest in its digital transformation over the next five years, but notes its ability to achieve its ambitions is subject to the availability of funding.| 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 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
Documents released under freedom of information rules show Microsoft’s lawyers admitted to Scottish policing bodies that the company cannot guarantee their sensitive law enforcement data will remain in the UK, despite long-standing public claims to the contrary.| ComputerWeekly.com