Police: Biometrics

(asked on 5th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of reports that police forces have conducted searches of Clearview AI’s facial recognition database; and what assessment she has made of the legal basis for police forces to conduct such searches in the course of their investigations.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 13th March 2020

The use of suppliers and systems by the police to carry out a search of a database is a matter for the relevant police force, operating in accordance with the law.

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