Category: Justice & Policing

Live facial recognition technology is in ‘no fit state’ to be deployed by police in Scotland, politicians have concluded. A committee tasked with investigating the use of the emerging technology...

The government has acted to give police forces across the country new powers to tackle the misuse of unmanned aircraft, including drones, as the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill had...

Technology which allows police to bypass security measures on digital devices – including smartphones and tablets – is set to be rolled out in Scotland next Monday, January 20. Forty-one...

Plans to modernise Police Scotland’s ICT systems through a £298m capital investment over nine years have been held back by a “significantly lower” allocation of budgetary resources than originally planned,...

The number of crimes which have an online or ‘cyber’ element has risen by 215%, according to a board-level report compiled by Police Scotland. Since last year, the number of...

Live facial recognition technology would be a “priority area” for a new Scottish Biometrics Commissioner when they were installed in post, the Justice Secretary said this week. The hotly-debated technology,...

A Scottish legal firm is partnering with an online identity and anti-money laundering platform to allow its clients to undergo secure online compliance processes. Anderson Strathern is working with Amiqus,...

A new £20m project to create a shared portal for digital evidence in criminal cases is set to become the ‘backbone’ of moves towards greater collaboration between Scotland’s criminal justice...