Alexander Martin reports: Members of the House of Lords have written to the United Kingdom’s home secretary warning that the use of live facial recognition technology by police lacks a legal basis, and calling for legislation on the matter to be voted on by Parliament. Live facial recognition (LFR) software, which works by comparing the…
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UK: Police secretly conducting facial recognition searches of passport database
Revelation sparks concern among MPs and watchdogs over implications for data protection and relationship between the citizen and the state Mark Wilding and Charles Hymas report: Police forces have been secretly conducting hundreds of facial recognition searches using the UK’s database of 46 million British passport holders, it can be revealed. Chris Philp, the policing minister, raised…
France fines Amazon €32 million over employee surveillance
From News Wires: France’s data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon’s French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system to keep track of staff performance. Amazon France Logistique monitored the work of employees in particular through data from scanners used by the staff to process packages, according to the…
Dutch SA Sanctions Credit Card Company for Failure to Perform Data Protection Impact Assessment
Kristof Van Quathem of Covington and Burling writes: In December 2023, the Dutch SA fined a credit card company €150,000 for failure to perform a proper data protection impact assessment (“DPIA”) in accordance with Art. 35 GDPR for its “identification and verification process”. First, the Dutch SA decided that the company was required to perform a DPIA…