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Blog: Live facial recognition technology - data protection law applies Share (Opens Share panel) A blog by Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner 9 July 2019 Any organisation using software that can recognise a face amongst a crowd then scan large databases of people to check for a match in a matter of seconds, is processing personal data. For the past year, South Wales Police and the Met Police have been trialling live facial recognition (LFR) technology that uses this software, in public spaces, to identify individuals at risk or those linked to a range of criminal activity - from violent crime to less serious offences. We understand the purpose is to catch criminals. But these trials also represent the widespread processing of biometric data of thousands of people as they go about their daily lives. And that is a potential threat to privacy that should concern us all. LFR is a high priority area for the ICO. My office has been conducting an investigation, ...

BLACKLISTING AND DEBARMENT OF CONTRACTORS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Ravi Singhania & Madhu Sweta 23/11/2018 The decision to enter into a contractual relationship is inherent in every person capable of entering into a contract. Where a person has the right to make a contract, it also has a concomitant right not to make a contract. The Government’s right to contract flows from Article 298 of the Constitution. Hence, the analogous right not to contract also rests with the Government who can choose either to annul the contract or to adapt debarment or suspension as a tool for ensuring compliance of erring contractors who fail to perform the procurement actions for the Government. However, these decisions taken on behalf of the Government have to be mandatorily balanced with the Wednesbury principle of reasonableness [1]  and natural justice. The traditional view that the executive is not answerable in the matter of exercising of prerogative power over erri...