In a shock ruling today, the UK Court of Appeal has declared that South Wales Police broke the law with an indiscriminate deployment of automated facial-recognition technology in Cardiff city centre.
"The Respondent's use of Live Automated Facial Recognition technology on 21 December 2017 and 27 March 2018 and on an ongoing basis... was not in accordance with the law," ruled Sir Terence Etherton, president of the Court of Appeal, along with senior judges Dame Victoria Sharp and Lord Justice Singh.
This morning's ruling will be seen by many as a blow against police attempts to roll out the technology nationwide without Parliament updating the law. The judges, however, cautioned: "This appeal is not concerned with possible use of AFR [automated facial recognition] in the future on a national basis."
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