CRISP report underlines fear that UK is heading into a biometric safety vacuum

Fraser Sampson remains unhappy with the UK government’s stance on privacy, comparing the decision to abolish his office and remove safeguards around biometrics and public surveillance to wanton destruction of public property.

As quoted in Tech Monitor, the outgoing Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner (BSCC) calls the decision to lean away from regulation at a crucial time in the evolution of threats to privacy is shocking, and “tantamount to vandalism.” In a separate report in The Record, Sampson says …

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