https://techmonitor.ai/government-computing/uk-surveillance-camera-safeguards

The UK government risks creating a "worrying vacuum" around safeguarding the public from the potentially harmful of effects of biometric technology and surveillance cameras, the outgoing Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner (BSCC) has warned. Professor Fraser Sampson, who is leaving his post at the end of this month, was speaking ahead of the publication of a new report looking at the impact of the upcoming abolition of the BSCC's office, and said the government's lack of planning for the future is "tantamount to vandalism".

Set to be published this week, the report, written by the Centre for Research into Information Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP) and seen by Tech Monitor, warns that not adequately replacing the role of the BSCC will leave the UK without proper oversight of the technologies.