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- Quarterly Newsletter No 1 - June 2021
- Quarterly Newsletter No 2 - September 2021
- Quarterly Newsletter No 3 - December 2021
- Quarterly Newsletter No 4 - March 2022
- Briefing to UN Human Rights Council
- Future Scot Article - Scottish Biometrics Commissioner interview
- Public consultation on the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner’s Code of Practice
- Guest blog from Diego Quiroz - Operations Manager, Scottish Biometrics Commissioner
- Public attitudes to Police use of biometric data
- Commissioner welcomes independent biometrics review in England and Wales
- Quarterly Newsletter No 5 - June 2022
- 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
- Scotland leads way on biometric data
- First ever government biometrics code moves toward approval in Scotland
- What is Biometrics?
- 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
- Quarterly Newsletter No 6 - September 2022
- DNA and biometric data use in the Scottish Criminal Justice sector
- Who Can Use Your Data? Forensic Evidence in the Digital Age
- Commissioners attends SPA Board Meeting
- Quarterly Newsletter No 7 - December 2022
- Commissioner meets with Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans
- Commissioner interview with SPRITE+ (Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust, Engagement, NetworkPlus)
- Scottish Biometrics Commissioner welcomes annual report for England and Wales
- Statement by Scottish Biometrics Commissioner
- Commissioner welcomes publication of report into emerging technologies in Policing
- 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
- Biometric data acquisition from children and vulnerable people reviewed
- Commissioner reiterates concerns about Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill to Scottish MP on Westminster Committee
- Commissioner and team visit Brussels
- Commissioner supports call for four nations summit on Artificial Intelligence
- SPA Policing Performance Committee meeting - 15 June 2023
- Newsletter No 8 - June 2023
- Richard Lochhead's response to Scottish Biometrics Commissioner's letter for four nations summit on Artificial Intelligence
- Commissioner submits call for evidence to Parliament's Criminal Justice Committee
- Commissioner meets with Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs
- Commissioner sends letter of concern to Police Scotland
- Commissioner responds to statement by Policing Minister for England and Wales about UK Police National Database (PND)
- Biometrics Institute Congress
- UK Data Protection & Digital Information (No.2) Bill
- Commissioner welcomes Criminal Justice Committee pre-budget scrutiny report
- Newsletter No 9 December 2023
- Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Advisory Group
- Is Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ towards its place within a UK surveillance state in 2024?
- Police Scotland compliant with Scottish Biometrics Commissioner’s Code of Practice
- Scottish Police Authority (SPA) compliant with Scottish Biometrics Commissioner's Code of Practice
- Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) compliant with Scottish Biometrics Commissioner's Code of Practice
- How Can Genetic Genealogy Transform Forensic Investigations?
- Commissioner welcomes CETaS report
- The Commissioner at the Finance and Public Administration Committee
- Increasing public trust in biometrics
- Commissioner welcomes FINDS Strategy Board Annual Report for 2022-23
- DPDI Bill withdrawn
- New Police Scotland Biometrics Information Leaflet
- The First Scottish Biometrics Conference
- Letter from Tony Eastaugh - BSCC
- The Scotsman Data Conference 2024
- Quarterly Newsletter No.10 June 2024
- Commissioner would welcome ICO investigation into DESC.
- Commissioner calls for post-election ‘reset’ of UK Government Biometrics Strategy
- Highlights from the first Scottish Biometrics Conference
- Police Scotland completes work on 2023 recommendations
- Commissioner invited to speak in the United States and in London
- SBC
- SBC (1)
- SBC (2)
- Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)
- Commissioner welcomes FINDS Annual Report for 2023/24
- 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 at the Criminal Justice Committee
- Commissioner welcomes UK and Scottish ‘conversations’ on the future of Live Facial Recognition
- Scottish Biometrics Commissioner and Director at the SPA Board Meeting
- Commissioner welcomes Annual Report for England and Wales and calls for end to UK Government indecisiveness
- PIRC Commissioner awarded CBE
- SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee
- Annual Compliance Assessments for Statutory Code of Practice 2024/25
- 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
- Commissioner invited to deliver ASPS Jack Urquhart Memorial Lecture
- Scottish Biometrics Commissioner attends SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee
- Commissioner writes to University of Dundee
- The SBC Commissioner gives evidence at the NI Assembly Committee for Justice
- Quarterly Newsletter No.11 December 2024
- Commissioner welcomes the appointment of Fiona McQueen CBE as Chair of Scottish Police Authority
- Public attitudes to police use of biometrics data
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