UK police use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops' lawyer tells Court of Appeal

UK police use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops' lawyer tells Court of Appeal

South Wales Police and the UK Home Office "fundamentally disagree" that automated facial recognition (AFR) software is as intrusive as collecting fingerprints or DNA, a barrister for the force told the Court of Appeal yesterday.


Jason Beer QC, representing the South Wales Police (SWP) also blamed the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for "dragging" the court into the topic of whether the police force's use of the creepy cameras complied with the Data Protection Act.


The president of the Court of Appeal, Sir Terence Etherton, had asked: "I thought we were dealing with this overall issue about whether the law was sufficiently foreseeable, et cetera. Why are we going into this?"


Beer replied: "The ICO has dragged us into it," to which Etherton said: "This deals with the breach [of the law], not with the framework [of law]. Why are we going into this ..

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