In his 2020 to 2021 annual report, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner has outlined his concerns about the government's proposals to merge his office with the ICO. Professor Fraser Sampson said that he recommends careful consideration of the "beguiling simplicity of generalising this area as merely involving matters of data protection". For instance, recording images in a hospital mortuary clearly illustrate not all use cases can be judged as a matter of "data rights".
Read the 2020-2021 Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner annual report.
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