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Dr Sampson is worried that the Home Office is too focused on the regulatory framework for DNA and fingerprints, ignoring new technologies.

The U.K.s former biometrics and surveillance commissioner has highlighted ethical and technical shortcomings in the governments approach to the technology.

The U.K.s outgoing biometrics and surveillance commissioner and others highlight ethical and technical shortcomings in the governments plan to use the technology.

But the data protection framework through which the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office will oversee surveillance cameras and biometrics may be inadequate.

Biometrics and digital ID security companies in the U.S. and Germany have announced the appointment of new members to advisory roles.

Sampson departed the regulatory role on October 31, and started at Facewatch on November 1, according to Companies House registration records.

The Home Secretary James Cleverly has appointed Tony Eastaugh as the new Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner.

Computer Weekly speaks to the outgoing biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales Fraser Sampson about his time in office, how police have approached the deployment of powerful new technologies, and the declining state of oversight in the areas covered by his dual role

A DAD whose son was almost injured by a firework thrown by teenagers has started a petition to implement CCTV in the area of the incident.

Fraser Sampson is warning that the country’s new data protection law could leave a shortfall in oversight for surveillance technology.