Michael O’Flaherty, Director, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Vienna. For correspondence: <mailto:just_digit_secure@fra.europa.eu>.This opinion is based on FRA, Facial recognition technology: fundamental rights considerations in the context of law enforcement (FRA focus, Publications Office of the European Union, November 2019) <https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2019/facial-recognition-technology-fundamental-rights-considerations-context-law> accessed 28 February 2020.