The government wants to allow police to search all passport images to catch criminals.
The UK's surveillance camera commissioner has said government plans to allow police to access passport photos to catch criminals risks damaging public trust.
The police can check images from dashcam and doorbell technologies, as well as home and business security cameras, against the national database. "The state has large collections of good quality photographs of a significant proportion of the population - drivers and passport holders being good examples - which were originally required and given as a condition of, say, driving and international travel," he said.
But civil liberties groups, who have already raised concerns about the existing use of facial recognition technology by the police, said using passport photos risks exacerbating them. Mr Gerrard said a freedom of information request by Co-op showed that the police failed to attend in more than 70% of serious retail crimes reported.
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