NCA and forces must improve oversight of retrospective facial recognition, HMICFRS warns
A UK police oversight body, HMICFRS, has warned that the National Crime Agency and police forces need to improve how they supervise their use of retrospective facial recognition technology.
Why this matters: Retrospective facial recognition is not the live cameras people usually picture. It means running footage or images through a database after the fact, often without anyone noticing it happened. That makes oversight harder and mistakes easier to bury. When a watchdog tells law enforcement to do better, it usually means the current controls are not working. People whose faces end up in these searches rarely know it happened, and they have no easy way to find out if it went wrong.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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