Safe City Malta board renewed despite planned shutdown of surveillance programme
The Maltese government has appointed a new board to run Safe City Malta, the Huawei-developed facial-recognition surveillance project, despite saying in January that the company would be wound down. The board, including Omar Debono, Joseph Cauchi and Nadine Mizzi, was appointed for another year until June 2024. The government had earlier dropped the facial-recognition element over concerns that it would breach Maltese and EU law, and the article reports that nothing has been delivered.
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