"In 2025, Computer Weekly's police technology coverage focused extensively on developments in the use of data-driven technologies such as facial recognition and predictive policing. This included stories on the Met's decision to deploy permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon and the Home Office launching a formal consultation on laws to regulate its use, as well as reports highlighting the lawfulness, necessity and proportionality of how UK police are using the technology."
"Further stories continued Computer Weekly's ongoing coverage of police hyperscale cloud use, after documents obtained from Scottish policing bodies revealed that Microsoft is refusing to hand them critical information about its data flows. Computer Weekly also reported on efforts to change police data protection rules, which essentially legalise previously unlawful practices and pose a risk to the UK's law enforcement data adequacy with the European Union (EU)."
"The move initially announced by policing minister Sarah Jones in early October 2025 after then home secretary Yvette Cooper told a Lords Committee in July that the UK government will create a proper, clear governance framework to regulate police use of the tech marks a distinct shift in Home Office policy, which for years has claimed there is already comprehensive legal framework in place."
Police forces in the UK expanded use of data-driven technologies, including permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon and predictive policing systems. The Home Office opened a formal consultation in December 2025 proposing a legal framework to set clear rules for police facial recognition use. Documents from Scottish policing bodies revealed that Microsoft refused to provide critical information about its hyperscale cloud data flows. Proposed changes to police data protection rules would legalise previously unlawful practices and risk the UK's law enforcement data adequacy with the EU. An investigation revealed EU law enforcement agencies collecting large datasets to support a secretive AI development programme.
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