The use of automatic facial recognition technology by South Wales Police was unlawful, according to the Court of Appeal.
The "AFR Locate" software automatically scans the faces of pedestrians without them knowing and compares them to images on a database of persons of interest.
Three judges found SWP had breached privacy rights, data protection laws and equality laws by deploying the technology called "AFR Locate." They specifically looked at two instances where it was deployed, however the police used it on around 50 occasions between May 2017 and April 2019. The ruling comes after two senior judges at London's High Court dismissed Bridges' claim in September 2019, ruling that the technology was in fact lawful.
"This technology is an intrusive and discriminatory mass surveillance tool," he said. "For three years now South Wales Police has been using it against hundreds of thousands of us, without our consent and often without our knowledge. We should all be able to use our public spaces without being subjected to oppressive surveillance."
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