UK biometrics boss bows out, bemoaning bureaucratic blunders

The farewell report written by the UK's biometrics and surveillance commissioner highlights a litany of failings in the Home Office's approach to governing the technology. Dr Fraser Sampson's final annual report [PDF], published late last week, comes months after he stepped down from the role that's soon to be abolished, and …

[Pascal Monett]

"at times frustrating"

Only at times ?

Let's face it : this whole thing was a facade, a fabrication to make people think that oversight was being implemented. You never had the full complement of staff to do your job ? You didn't have a job, you had a theatrical distraction for the masses.

Just watch V for Vendetta to know where we're going.

Then watch Idiocracy to put the final nail in the coffin of the future of Humanity.

Sorry, I'm a bit depressed at the moment . . .

[Dan 55]

Re: "at times frustrating"

Don't forget Children of Men which appears to foretell an accurate model of UK policing and immigration policy. That'll cheer you up.

[Dan 55]

Figleaf

What amazes me is they gave the job to someone who might have a problem with being treated like a figleaf.

I imagine the ex-Met commander replacing him knows which side his bread is buttered.

[Jimmy2Cows]

Not a bug

Sampson said if he challenged a chief police officer's retention decision, asking them to drop it by a few years, there is no way to make that change in the system, leading to biometrics being held for disproportionate periods.

That's a deliberate feature. Reduce the retention period? On purpose? Are you nuts? Cops never want to lose their juicy data.

[xyz]

0800 Fujitsu

This sounds like a tasty morsel for them to indulge in. Confusion , lack of direction, multiple systems... They could make a killing and no one will ever find out it didn't work.

[cantankerous swineherd]

matey f***s off to a lucrative seat on the board of directors I'll be bound.

[gandalfcn]

Diddums, bless.

[gandalfcn]

According to The Grauniad.

[gandalfcn]

"There is no clear plan in place", just like everything else with the recent/current government.