The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office issued a letter to the North Ayrshire Council with concerns the use of facial recognition technology in nine school canteens may have violated the U.K. General Data Protection Regulation. "New technologies such as FRT can offer benefits and efficiencies, but their use is not without risk from a data protection point of view. That risk is heightened where children's data is being processed," the ICO said, recommending the NAC make improvements around data minimization and data accuracy.