Draft DPIA relating to cancelled trial of Retrospective Facial Recognition

Response

Please see attached the draft DPIA held in relation to the proposed trial use of Retrospective Facial Recognition.

This trial was not completed from draft to full national trial and therefore was not signed off or implemented. Nor can the information contained within the draft document be considered accurate or current, dating as it does from 2022.

No further information is held in relation to your request.

Within the document provided, names other than those of officers with a rank of Superintendent or above have been redacted and withheld under the following exemption:

• Section 40(2) – Personal Information.

Section 40 is a class based absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the public interest in this case.

Any information to which a request relates is exempt if it constitutes personal data and would contravene any of the data protection principles.  Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified directly from the information, or identifiable indirectly in combination with other available information.

To disclose the redacted information would identify individuals, which would breach principle 1 (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) of the Data Protection Act 2018.

This serves as a partial refusal notice under section 17(1) of the FOI Act.