{
  "record": {
    "id": "043ca6fa-346a-48da-83dc-6b43317723b6",
    "code": "PAI-043CA6FA",
    "force": "Politiet (Norwegian Police Service)",
    "country": "Norway",
    "country_code": "no",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "National",
    "technology": "AI retrospective biometric remote identification (facial recognition)",
    "technology_slug": "remote-biometric-id-proposed",
    "vendor": "",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "proposed",
    "stage": "horizon",
    "evidence": "official",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "",
    "legal_basis": "Proposed amendments to the Police Register Act (politiregisterloven) and the Police Register Regulation, issued for public consultation by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security on 21 November 2025 with a deadline of 16 January 2026.",
    "oversight": "The proposal would require prior approval from the prosecution authority (paatalemyndigheten) for targeted searches against suspected or convicted persons, exempting initial identification of an unknown suspect; would require each use to be documented; and would introduce annual reporting to Datatilsynet. The stated aim is protection equivalent to Article 26(10) of the EU AI Regulation.",
    "notes": "Established by the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security's own consultation documents, read twice in this run - the announcement page and the consultation document page - which agree on the ministry, the date, the deadline and the substance. The proposal covers retrospective biometric remote identification only, described as automated comparison of collected biometric data against corresponding data in a register, for example matching images from video surveillance against stored photographs. The stated purposes are identifying wanted or suspected persons in cases such as violence and sexual offences, and identifying victims and witnesses. The ministry's announcement states that Norwegian police do not today use real-time biometric remote identification systems. Status is proposed, not trial: nothing read establishes that any system has been procured or piloted. IMPORTANT CAVEAT FOR REVIEW: the consultation closed on 16 January 2026, roughly eight months before this run, and no source read establishes what has happened since - whether a bill has been laid before the Storting, amended or dropped. The record should be re-checked before it is relied on as current, and the status may already be out of date in the proposed-to-trial direction.",
    "source": "Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security",
    "source_url": "https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/horing-forslag-til-endringer-i-politiregisterloven-og-politiregisterforskriften-regulering-av-politiets-bruk-av-ki-til-etterfolgende-biometrisk-fjernidentifikasjon/id3140335/",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-06",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/043ca6fa-346a-48da-83dc-6b43317723b6"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}