By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Live facial recognition (LFR) and other transformative technologies are at…
Articles By Fraser Sampson
Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner, is Professor of Governance and National Security at CENTRIC and Non-Executive Director at Facewatch.
A New Year’s resolution for AI – don’t blame the bot
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner According to the old saying, blaming our tools is a…
The most unbelievable cyber statistic of 2025?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner It’s look-back season again. Time to dust off old favourites…
Exposed – will AI biometrics leave spies out in the cold?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Arguments against the state using AI-enabled biometrics like facial recognition…
Pandemic surveillance – how AI will police the next global health crisis
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Fears about AI-enabled biometric tools like facial recognition are often…
Do biometrics hold the key to prison release?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner In the criminal justice setting there are two questions in…
Policing deepfakes: does the camera ever lie?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner There’s a well-known saying across the English-speaking world that ‘the…
UK citizens say the police should be using AI – but there are conditions…
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner As we come to terms with its potential reach, debates…
Transplanting biometrics in police CCTV may create Frankenstein effect
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner There’s something quaintly British about the fact that we still…
What we talk about when we talk about biometrics and policing
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner When I was the UK’s Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner,…
