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24 November 2023
Issue: 8050 / Categories: Legal News , Artificial intelligence
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NLJ this week: Why we need to keep the biometrics & surveillance commissioner

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The government intends to abolish the joint posts of Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, which would be a big mistake, Michael Zander KC writes in this week’s NLJ

Instead, the roles will be bundled into the remit of the Information Commissioner’s Office. The aim is to ‘reduce duplication’ and a bill to enact this in law is currently before Parliament, albeit the bill appears to have stalled between the committee and report stages and is unlikely to make the statute book before next spring.

In this article, Zander, Emeritus Professor at the LSE, laments the potential abolition of the role and explains why it would be a serious loss, particularly for policing.

Zander draws on a recent report by the Centre for Research into Information Surveillance and Privacy to back up his argument.

Issue: 8050 / Categories: Legal News , Artificial intelligence
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