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Watchdog cries foul over Scotland Police biometrics-sharing pilot storing data in US
Oct. 13, 2023, 6:36 p.m. | Jim Nash
Biometric Update www.biometricupdate.com
A Police Scotland biometric evidence-sharing pilot project has been accused of being not just needlessly risky but of being criminal by Scotland's biometrics commissioner.
In a carefully worded letter to Police Scotland in which Commissioner Brian Plastow praises the law enforcement body's openness to his regulatory actions regarding the pilot, he says that it doesn't "ameliorate my specific concerns."
The pilot at issue is Scotland's £33 million (US$40 million) Digital Evidence Sharing Capability, or DESC, project that began earlier …
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