Facial recognition
Dear British Transport Police,
Please provide answers to the following:
1. Does British Transport Police have any plans to introduce facial recognition?
2. If so, please provide all information relating to those plans.
3. Does British Transport Police have any plans to introduce retrospective facial recognition?
4. If so, please provide all information relating to those plans.
Yours faithfully,
Elena Miucci
OFFICIAL
Dear Elena Miucci,
Freedom of Information request ref: 01/FOI/22/1177
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Katie Hulland
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Dear Elena Miucci,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request, our reference
01/FOI/22/1177.
Please find attached our response.
Yours sincerely,
Simon Fuller
Data Protection & FOI Manager
Information Management / Uned Rheoli Gwybodaeth
Capability and Resources/Gallu ac Adnoddau
British Transport Police / Heddlu Trafnidiaeth Prydeinig
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Clearview - a company used by the police - fined more than £7.5m in respect of its database that matches facial images - May '22
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
Biometrics Commissioner - 16/2/23
The use of overt surveillance camera systems in public places by police forces in England and Wales: An assessment of compliance with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice
'8. Not all respondents have completed data protection impact assessments for all the technology under discussion in this survey. This is a concern, particularly given the government’s position that much of the work currently undertaken by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner is a data protection issue, and already falls under the remit of the ICO notwithstanding any legislative proposals to abolished (sic) the Surveillance Camera Code by the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.'
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...
Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material Annual Report - January 2021 – March 2022
And
Surveillance Camera Commissioner Annual Report March 2021 – March 2022
February 2023
'84. More worrying is the reported use of images of people who, while having been arrested, have never subsequently been charged or summonsed, for comparison against Live Facial Recognition ‘reads‘ and watchlists. As I record in Part 2 of this report, the use of facial recognition technology by the police has become one of the most contentious areas of biometric surveillance, not just in the UK but globally .
Part 2 – Facial Recognition and AI
96. The objective of the event was to gain a better understanding of how facial recognition technology is perceived by society in a policing and law enforcement context. Speaking at the event were the Forensic Science Regulator, a senior lecturer from Sheffield University and representatives from the Biometrics Institute, the Information Commissioner’s Office, South Wales Police, and Big Brother Watch.
Appendix F: Facial recognition and AI'
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...
Who's Watching You? Report by Big Brother Watch - 7/2/22
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-conten...
'Police forces were reluctant to answer questions about any advanced capabilities, while some refused to say if they used Chinese brands at all'
Biometrics Commissioner - 15/2/23
UK policing 'shot through' with Chinese surveillance technology
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-po...
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Chief Constables’ Council
Title: National Biometrics Function and National Facial Recognition Project - 30/9/21
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/8...
Live facial recognition technology guidance
published 22/3/22
https://www.college.police.uk/article/li...
The Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner's response to the College of Policing APP on Live Facial Recognition - 6/4/22
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-b...
Initial analysis of the 2022 police survey returns
Published 14 November 2022
'Is your force operating Facial Recognition Technology?
Only one force stated that it was using LFR (from the list supplied). Six had access to PND and two of those to CAID. One other mentioned access to Athena.'
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...
Fact Sheet on live facial recognition used by police
(Home Office - 2019)
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov....