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What you need to know about the ICO’s clampdown on biometric tech
02/05/2024
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Hannah Pettit is an associate at Ashfords
Hannah Pettit is an associate at Ashfords

Workplace monitoring is a key focus for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s privacy regulator. In recent years we have seen a huge increase in technologies available to monitor the workforce, including those which utilise biometric data to identify someone.

What is biometric data?