Automated facial recognition (AFR) use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff.
"Put simply, connected to a database with the right information, AFR could be used to identify very large numbers of people in a given place at a given time," Dan Squires QC told the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in written arguments this morning.
Squires is barrister for one Ed Bridges, who, backed by human rights pressure group Liberty, wants to overturn a judicial review ruling from 2019 which failed to halt facial recognition tech use against him by South Wales Police.
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