Legal framework for using facial recognition in law enforcement

This consultation aims to ensure that the law keeps pace with technological developments and provides clear, consistent rules that the public can understand more easily, and that law enforcement can rely on as they increasingly use these technologies.

The consultation seeks views on a wide range of issues, including which technologies should be covered by the new framework - such as biometric, inferential, and object recognition tools - and which organisations it should apply to.

It also explores when and how these technologies should be used, what safeguards are necessary to protect privacy and other rights, and how to ensure their use is demonstrably proportionate to the seriousness of the harm being addressed.

See also:

• Police use of facial recognition: a guide
• Police use of facial recognition: factsheet
• Public Attitudes to Police Use of Facial Recognition Technologies in England & Wales Survey
• Facial recognition technology tests: National Physical Laboratory