Live Facial Recognition and Your Privacy

This is a very interesting article by Stephen Bonner, the Information Commissioner Ofiice’s Deputy Commissioner for Regulatory Supervision, discussing the ICO’s process in it’s decisions around Facewatch’s products that use live facial recognition (LFR).

Blog: Balancing people’s privacy rights with the need to prevent crime | ICO

It is worth reading especially if you are considering that LFR will help your security – as part of that process you had better think about the privacy of those you scan.

Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles