Police National Database: Facial Images Debate
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Viscount Waverley
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Police National Database: Facial Images
Viscount Waverley Excerpts(7 years, 9 months ago)
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Viscount Waverley (CB)
Can the Minister say whether, beyond the UK data protection and legislative issues, the Americans, through their Patriot Act, have any form of access to the police national database?
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Generally, the presumption is that anyone concerned with crime, and fighting crime, will have access to the PND. As to which countries will have that access, clearly there are international arrangements for the sharing of data, and I am sure that that includes America.