Select committee: Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Live Facial Recognition

Closed Opened 21 Nov 2023 Closed 24 Jan 2024
Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Justice and Home Affairs Committee is holding a single evidence session to probe into police deployment of Live Facial Recognition technology, following up on the themes highlighted by the inquiry 'New technologies and the application of the law' and the resulting report Technology rules? The advent of new technologies in the justice system , published in March 2022.

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 21 November 2023.

The committee has not published a report yet.

Evidence

  • 1 oral evidence sessionLatest 12 December 2023
  • 4 witnesses
All evidence

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Oral evidence sessions

1 session

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Date Session and witnesses Source
12 Dec 2023
Oral evidence session
Lindsey Chiswick · Metropolitan Police, Paul Roberts · NEC Software Solutions, Professor Karen Yeung · Birmingham Law School & School of Computer Science, T/DCC Mark Travis · South Wales Police
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Who gave evidence

4 witnesses

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WitnessOrganisationSessions
Lindsey Chiswick · Director of Intelligence Metropolitan Police 1
Paul Roberts · Head of Strategy NEC Software Solutions 1
Professor Karen Yeung · Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics Birmingham Law School & School of Computer Science 1
T/DCC Mark Travis · Senior Responsible Officer for Facial Recognition Technology South Wales Police 1