EU data watchdog publishes guidelines on facial recognition in policing

As the debates over the AI Act heats up, the European Union’s data protection watchdog has published its final set of guidelines on the use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) guidelines are meant to help individual EU states formulate their laws: Each country should provide a legal basis for any form of processing biometric data by law enforcement agencies using facial recognition, according to the document.

The EDPB is in charge of …

act ai act biometrics biometrics news board data data protection edpb enforcement eu european data protection board european union facial facial recognition facial recognition technology guidelines law law enforcement laws police policing protection recognition states technology watchdog