Court Shuts Down UK Big Brotherism

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LONDON (AFP) — The use of facial recognition technology by a British police force was ruled unlawful on Tuesday by the Court of Appeal in a case brought by a civil rights campaigner.

Ed Bridges had challenged South Wales Police’s use of the technology after his face was scanned on two separate occasions in Cardiff — once while Christmas shopping in 2017 and at an anti-arms protest a year later.

He said the technology had caused him “distress.”

The judges backed his appeal and ruled there was no clear guidance on where AFR Locate — the technology being trialed by South Wales Police —could be used and who could be put on a watchlist.

It also ruled a data protection impact assessment of the technology was deficient and that South Wales Police did not take reasonable steps to find out if the software had a racial or gender bias.

https://www.courthousenews.com/uk-police-use-of-facial-recognition-ruled-unlawful/




Not sure of this is UK wide or just Wales.

 

[Sean]

England and Wales. Scotland and NI have different judicial systems.

 

[Bray123]

It's slightly confusing and very poorly reported.

The police will not cease using the technology which is a Home Office project, trialled by that force. They will simply re-write the guidance and Data Protection Assessment. Whether or not there is a bias in a computer matching a face to a criminal (such as a pedophile visiting a fairground) is a darned good question, the sort of drivel dreamed up by someone who squats in someone else's house.

My work computer recognises my face and logs me in without further passwords, so someone is confident of its reliability.

The vans be back on the streets by the weekend.

 

[hobbit.]

just carry a decent laser pen at any gathering you may attend. (probably not christenings though) it fucks with the facial recognition.