Question follow-through · 98989
Biometrics: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the rates of false positives generated by live facial recognition systems.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the rates of false positives generated by live facial recognition systems.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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5 Jan 2026
Answer published
Police use of live facial recognition (LFR) is governed by equality, human rights, and data protection laws, and can only be used for a policing purpose where necessary, proportionate, and fair. LFR technology is not automated decision-making; it suggests...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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