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24 Feb 2026 | Policy paper Home Office Immigration Enforcement Context · primary home: Live Facial Recognition for I… linked

Live facial recognition: data protection impact assessments (DPIA) template

This assessment explains the legal basis, safeguards, and privacy measures for using facial recognition to process biometric data.

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24 Feb 2026 | Policy paper Home Office Immigration Enforcement Context · primary home: Live Facial Recognition for I… linked

Immigration Enforcement: live facial recognition legal mandate

The legal mandate describes the authorities and legal powers governing Immigration Enforcement use of live facial recognition.

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24 Feb 2026 | Policy paper Home Office Immigration Enforcement linked

Immigration Enforcement facial recognition policy

This policy outlines Immigration Enforcement’s strategic, operational, and legal framework for the ethical use of live facial recognition technology.

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24 Feb 2026 | Policy paper Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner linked

Commissioner's response to the live facial recognition consultation

The commissioner's response to the Home Office consultation on a new legal framework for law enforcement use of facial recognition and similar technologies.

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↓ Commissioner's response to the live facial recognition cons… (16pp)

24 Feb 2026 | Policy paper Home Office Immigration Enforcement Context · primary home: Live Facial Recognition for I… linked

Live facial recognition standard operating procedures

The standard operating procedures explains the requirements for setting up and deploying live facial recognition (LFR).

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24 Feb 2026 | Policy paper Home Office Immigration Enforcement Context · primary home: Live Facial Recognition for I… linked

Live facial recognition: equality impact assessment (EIA)

An equality impact assessment covers the considerations of this technology by Immigration Enforcement.

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5 Nov 2025 | Policy paper Home Office Immigration Enforcement linked

Processing special categories and criminal convictions data

This document is the appropriate policy document for the Home Office.

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5 Nov 2025 | Policy paper Home Office Immigration Enforcement linked

Policy on sensitive processing for law enforcement purposes, under Part 3 DPA (2018)

This is the Home Office’s official policy document, created to meet its legal duties under Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018.

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12 Feb 2020 | Policy paper Home Office linked

Response to a reinspection of failed right of abode applications

Home Office response to an ICIBI inspection of failed right of abode applications and referral for consideration of enforcement action.

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11 Sep 2019 | Policy paper Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner linked

The use of facial recognition technology by South Wales police

This statement sets outs the Commissioner's position on the recent High Court judgment on the use of Automatic Facial Recognition technology by South Wales police.

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