Independent Advisory Group on the Use of Biometric Data (External organisation)

  • Genevieve Lennon (Advisor)

Activity: Membership typesMembership of committee

Description

In 2017 the Cabinet Secretary for Justice established an Independent Advisory Group to review the retention of custody images by Police Scotland. The Cabinet Secretary for Justice also asked that the Group consider the use and retention of biometric data more generally in policing to seek to establish an ethical and human rights based framework which could be applied to existing, emerging and future biometrics in what is an important and fast-moving area of technology.
Period20172018
Held atIndependent Advisory Group on the Use of Biometric Data , United Kingdom

Keywords

  • biometrics
  • policing
  • accountability
  • law