A RAND Europe report, produced with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and RUSI, warns that biometrics, digital ID and AI decision-support tools used by police and border agencies risk becoming tools for discriminatory targeting and surveillance in the absence of independent governance, Biometric Update reported.
The report, titled “Novel Technologies for Security Sector Governance and Management,” cites documented facial-recognition misidentification disparities and points to systems like EURODAC and Clearview AI as cautionary examples. It recommends pre-acquisition risk assessments and audit trails, arguing that relying on “human-in-the-loop” oversight alone is insufficient.
Why it matters: The report adds to a growing body of institutional, non-vendor research pushing back against the assumption that human review of an AI system’s output is sufficient safeguard on its own — a distinction increasingly relevant as police and border agencies adopt biometric and AI decision-support tools faster than governance frameworks are being built around them.
Source: Biometric Update, September 9, 2026, citing RAND Europe.
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