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• Summary of responses - SBC Consultation: Review of Functions
• Commissioner highlights opportunity to modernise Scotland’s approach to public space surveillance
• Commissioner pens article for Computer Weekly
• Newsletter No.14 - July 2026
• Commissioner responds to Scottish Government consultation on plans to reduce the prison population
• Commissioner writes to new Parliament Criminal Justice Committee
• Commissioner signs petition to reset the ICO
• Outcomes
• Code of Practice - public consultation
• Commissioner welcomes new SPA Chair
• Commissioner writes to new Cabinet Secretary for Justice about Live Facial Recognition
• Commissioner at Scottish Public Sector AI Conference
• Not All Facial Recognition Is Surveillance
• Commissioner welcomes High Court ruling on Live Facial Recognition in London
• Public polling - biometric responses
• Commissioner outlines legislative options on Live Facial Recognition (LFR)
• Chief Constable discusses SBC Fingerprint Assurance Review at Public Audit Committee
• Biometrics Commissioner and Subject Matter Expert at the Criminal Justice Committee
• Joint Assurance Review on Fingerprints
• Commissioner interview on STV re fingerprint review
• Scottish Biometrics Commissioner: Review of Functions
• Scottish Biometrics Commissioner attended the Scottish Parliament
• Have your say on the Police Scotland and SPA 2025 - 2030 draft Biometrics Strategy
• Scottish Biometrics Commissioner lays out blueprint for regulating police use of biometrics
• Newsletter No.13 December 2025
• Commissioner responds to Home Office Consultation on new legal framework for England and Wales
• ILPC Annual Conference 2025
• Chief Constable would welcome SBC oversight of public safety cameras
• Biometrics Institute Congress 2025
• Commissioner to give ILPC Annual Lecture 2025
• Police Scotland confirms intentions on future use of Live Facial Recognition
• Commissioner welcomes plan for strengthened legal framework around Live Facial Recognition in England and Wales
• Views on our draft Strategic Plan for 2025 to 2029
• Workshop Reflections: Strategic Planning and Code of Practice Workshop empowering voices
• Newsletter No12. June 2025
• Commissioner welcomes appointment of an interim Biometrics Commissioner for England and Wales
• Commissioner delivered ASPS Jack Urquhart Memorial Lecture
• Commissioner's blog on Live Facial Recognition
• The role of facial recognition in modern policing
• Commissioner welcomes the appointment of Fiona McQueen CBE as Chair of Scottish Police Authority
• Public attitudes to police use of biometrics data
• The SBC Commissioner gives evidence at the NI Assembly Committee for Justice
• Commissioner writes to University of Dundee
• Scottish Biometrics Commissioner attends SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee
• Commissioner invited to deliver ASPS Jack Urquhart Memorial Lecture
• Commissioner initiates preliminary consultation as part of the first statutory review of the Code of Practice
• Commissioner initiates preliminary consultation on the shape and form of our next 4-year Strategic Plan
• Annual Compliance Assessments for Statutory Code of Practice 2024/25
• SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee
• PIRC Commissioner awarded CBE
• Quarterly Newsletter No.11 December 2024
• Commissioner welcomes Annual Report for England and Wales and calls for end to UK Government indecisiveness
• Scottish Biometrics Commissioner and Director at the SPA Board Meeting
• Commissioner welcomes UK and Scottish ‘conversations’ on the future of Live Facial Recognition
• Commissioner at the Criminal Justice Committee
• Report of a review of the retention of biometric data provided for under sections 18 to 19C of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 Scottish Government and the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner
• Joint Statement from the Independent Scottish Parliamentary Officeholders
• Commissioner welcomes FINDS Annual Report for 2023/24
• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)
• Commissioner invited to speak in the United States and in London
• Highlights from the first Scottish Biometrics Conference
• Police Scotland completes work on 2023 recommendations
• Commissioner calls for post-election ‘reset’ of UK Government Biometrics Strategy
• Commissioner would welcome ICO investigation into DESC.
• Quarterly Newsletter No.10 June 2024
• Letter from Tony Eastaugh - BSCC
• The First Scottish Biometrics Conference
• The Scotsman Data Conference 2024
• New Police Scotland Biometrics Information Leaflet
• DPDI Bill withdrawn
• Commissioner welcomes FINDS Strategy Board Annual Report for 2022-23
• Increasing public trust in biometrics
• The Commissioner at the Finance and Public Administration Committee
• Commissioner welcomes CETaS report
• How Can Genetic Genealogy Transform Forensic Investigations?
• Scottish Police Authority (SPA) compliant with Scottish Biometrics Commissioner's Code of Practice
• Police Scotland compliant with Scottish Biometrics Commissioner’s Code of Practice
• Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) compliant with Scottish Biometrics Commissioner's Code of Practice
• Is Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ towards its place within a UK surveillance state in 2024?
• Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Advisory Group
• Newsletter No 9 December 2023
• Commissioner welcomes Criminal Justice Committee pre-budget scrutiny report
• UK Data Protection & Digital Information (No.2) Bill
• Biometrics Institute Congress
• Commissioner responds to statement by Policing Minister for England and Wales about UK Police National Database (PND)
• Commissioner sends letter of concern to Police Scotland
• Commissioner meets with Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs
• Commissioner submits call for evidence to Parliament's Criminal Justice Committee
• Richard Lochhead's response to Scottish Biometrics Commissioner's letter for four nations summit on Artificial Intelligence
• Newsletter No 8 - June 2023
• SPA Policing Performance Committee meeting - 15 June 2023
• Commissioner supports call for four nations summit on Artificial Intelligence
• Commissioner and team visit Brussels
• Commissioner reiterates concerns about Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill to Scottish MP on Westminster Committee
• Biometric data acquisition from children and vulnerable people reviewed
• Commissioner's statement on biometric enabled public space surveillance in Scotland
• Commissioner meets with Hikvision in Edinburgh
• Scottish opposition presses to expand Biometrics Commissioner oversight role
• Commissioner welcomes publication of report into emerging technologies in Policing
• Statement by Scottish Biometrics Commissioner
• Scottish Biometrics Commissioner welcomes annual report for England and Wales
• Commissioner interview with SPRITE+ (Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust, Engagement, NetworkPlus)
• Commissioner meets with Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans
• Quarterly Newsletter No 7 - December 2022
• Commissioners attends SPA Board Meeting
• Who Can Use Your Data? Forensic Evidence in the Digital Age
• DNA and biometric data use in the Scottish Criminal Justice sector
• Quarterly Newsletter No 6 - September 2022
• Consultation on the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner’s draft Complaints procedure on the Code of Practice
• The thin blue line: How the law is keeping pace with biometric data use
• Scotland leads way on biometric data
• First ever government biometrics code moves toward approval in Scotland
• Scotland set for ‘world first’ with biometric data Code of Practice
• Scotland set to be the world first for biometrics data Code of Practice in prisons
• Commissioner welcomes independent biometrics review in England and Wales
• Commissioners Quarterly Newsletter No.5: June 2022
• Public Attitudes To Police Use of Biometric Data
• Guest blog from Diego Quiroz, Operations Manager, Scottish Biometrics Commissioner.
• Children's Care and Justice Bill Consultation Response
• Public consultation on the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner’s Code of Practice
• Future Scot Article - Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Interview
• Briefing to UN Human Rights Council
• Commissioners Quarterly Newsletter No 4: March 2022
• Commissioner's Quarterly Newsletter No 3: December 2021
• Commissioner's Quarterly Newsletter No 2: September 2021
• Commissioner's Quarterly Newsletter No 1: June 2021
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