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European data storage firms are emerging that promise to protect customer data from US interference.

European data storage firms are emerging that promise to protect customer data from US interference.

Police Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major on-going data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach as well as the overall legality of using hyperscale public cloud technologies in a policing context

Scotland's biometrics watchdog has requested information from the national police on the use of cloud services for forensic biometrics records.

Scotland’s biometrics watchdog has issued Police Scotland with an information notice over its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence system, following disclosure of major data protection concerns by Computer Weekly.

The UK biometrics commissioner has warned that policing and justice bodies must be able to demonstrate “immediately and unequivocally” that their cloud deployments are lawful, especially given the sheer volume of sensitive biometric information being moved onto cloud infrastructure owned by US companies

Scottish policing bodies are pressing ahead with a data sharing pilot despite clear and ongoing data protection issues around the use of US cloud providers, placing sensitive personal data of tens of thousands of people at risk, including witnesses and victims of crime.

Progress on ratifying the Trans-Atlantic Data Policy Framework hit a snag, as a parliamentary committee rejected a draft decision to adopt the pact, saying it did not comply with the EU's GDPR privacy regulations.

The company is under pressure to prove its user data isn’t being accessed by the Chinese state

Progress on ratifying the Trans-Atlantic Data Policy Framework hit a snag, as a parliamentary committee rejected a draft decision to adopt the pact, saying it did not comply with the EU's GDPR privacy regulations.