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
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
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