What is or isn’t OK when it comes to the use of biometric technologies?

The Ada Lovelace Institute has today launched the report of the Citizens’ Biometrics Council. Throughout 2020 the Ada Lovelace Institute convened a Citizens’ Biometrics Council to bring the public’s voice into the debate on technologies which collect and process biometric data, like live facial recognition and digital fingerprinting.

Hopkins Van Mil collaborated with Ada as deliberation specialists, working in a close co-design process to create a space for thoughts, ideas and views to emerge. It was quite a year of course, but we worked with Council members in person and then online to explore a range of biometric technologies and issues. Integral to this was enabling Council members to discuss this with specialists including regulatory, industry and police bodies. The Council recommendations are included in the report and shine an important light on what is and is not OK.

We are very proud to have worked in collaboration with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Citizens’ Biometrics Council on this important deliberative programme.

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