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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

Microsoft EU Data Boundary dubbed ‘smoke and mirrors’ Data protection experts claim Microsoft’s decision to create an EU Data Boundary is a tacit admission that it routinely transfers and processes the personal data of European citizens outside the bloc Share this item with your network: By Published: 18 May 2021 16:30 Microsoft has committed to storing and processing all of its European Union (EU) customer data within the bloc by creating an “EU Data Boundary”,  but data protec...

Today (01 April 2021), marks the launch of the Police Digital Service (PDS), the new identity for the Police ICT Company. This represents far more than a name change; the organisation will have a broader remit and the resources to drive significant changes in policing. History The Police ICT Company was established in 2015 with the aim of supporting law enforcement agencies in England and Wales to make the best use of technology to deliver efficient and effective policing. It was intended to...

Swedish police fined for unlawful use of facial-recognition app Sweden’s data watchdog has found that Swedish police failed to conduct the data protection checks required by law before using controversial facial-recognition tool Share this item with your network: By Published: 18 Feb 2021 16:30 Sweden’s data protection authority IMY has fined the Swedish Police Authority €250,000 for unlawfully using controversial facial-recognition technology company Clearview AI to identify individ...

The Police ICT Company is making plans for a change of name and to step up its activities. Ian Bell, chief executive officer of PICTCO, and Wayne Parkes, chair of the Police Technology Programme and director of the National Enabling Programme, outlined the plans at the Police Digital Summit yesterday. They related it to the aims of the National Policing Digital Strategy, published in January of last year, pointing to the digital ambitions for the sector over the next five to 10 years. A plan to...

UK police unlawfully processing over a million people’s data on Microsoft 365 The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts Share this item with your network: By Published: 17 Dec 2020 9:30 Police forces across the UK stand accused of unlawfully processing people’s personal data within the Microsoft 365 cloud productivity platform, after...