Sweden’s law enforcement agencies are pushing to increase the use of biometrics in their work after a spew of gang-related violence rocked the Nordic country.
The country’s data privacy watchdog has now released an opinion on the police proposal to use biometric data stored in the Swedish passport register to crackdown on crime. Using the data from the passport register for law enforcement purposes would be a major and fundamental change and contrary to both the Swedish constitution and EU law, according to the agency.
