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Another example of the surfeit of Commissioners that have their fingers in the Privacy Pie. Looks like a repeat of the DNA database arguments re retention of DNA of the innocent (and of course the mass retention of metadata of the calls of the “innocent”)

 

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I did a general blog on this retention; it concluded re Home Office and Article 8 (HRA):

“In summary, the Home Office's human rights team is not very good because human rights are not its main function. The Home Office exists to support immigration, policing and national security – all the organisations that need powers to invade privacy  - it needs privacy protection like it needs a hole in the head”.

“It is therefore  not surprising that Home Office legislation provides for wide ranging powers to help "their agencies" and the bare minimum when drafting provisions that protect individuals from misuse of these powers. Remember also, that the Home Office was responsible for the drafting in the Data Protection and FOI Bills, so the original weak regulatory regime and abundance of exemptions in these Bills can now be seen as almost an inevitable consequence”.

http://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/2010/01/uk-terror-case-judgment-illustrates-a-failed-system-that-cannot-protect-privacy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HawkTalk+%28Hawk+Talk%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

 

From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ibrahim Hasan
Sent: 03 February 2015 11:06
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Subject: [data-protection] Police Photos

 

Police forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million "mugshots" to a facial recognition database - despite a court ruling it could be unlawful.

They include photos of people never charged, or others cleared of an offence, and were uploaded without Home Office approval, Newsnight has learned.

Photos of "hundreds of thousands" of innocent people may be on the database, an independent commissioner said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31105678

 

 

Ibrahim Hasan

Solicitor and Director
Act Now Training Limited

www.actnow.org.uk 

 

 

 

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