Czech data protection authorities question police use of facial recognition

Police use of facial recognition technology has come under the scrutiny of data protection authorities in another country, this time Czechia.

The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection has asked the local police for information on the facial recognition system that has been in trial operation for almost a year. One of the main issues highlighted is that the police did not bother to consult the data protection office during its testing, according to the office spokesperson Milan Řepka.

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