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UIN 904435

Police: Biometrics

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answeredUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

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22 May 2025

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2 June 2025 · Answer

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2 June 2025

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the use of facial recognition and AI technologies by the police is transparent.

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  1. 22 May 2025

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the use of facial recognition and AI technologies by the police is transparent.

    Source: Commons

  2. 2 June 2025

    Answer

    Facial recognition is an important tool that assists the police in protecting the public, and identifying the perpetrators of crime, and we want to ensure that we maximise the potential of that technology to support our Safer Streets mission.At the same t...

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