UK’s facial recognition technology ‘breaches privacy rights’

South Wales police accused of using system with racial bias' that breaks data protection law

Automated facial recognition technology that searches for people in public places breaches privacy rights and will radically" alter the way Britain is policed, the court of appeal has been told.

At the opening of a legal challenge against the use by South Wales police of the mass surveillance system, lawyers for the civil rights organisation Liberty argued that it is also racially discriminatory and contrary to data protection laws.