The Financial Times reports the first legal claim fighting the use of facial-recognition technology by police has been filed in the U.K. Ed Bridges, with support from human rights group Liberty, is challenging the unlawful use of facial recognition by the South Wales Police, which allegedly scanned Bridges' face twice. In his case to the High Court in Cardiff, Bridges claims that the use of the technology breached both his own right to privacy and U.K. data protection laws, arguing there are no legal safeguards regulating the technology's collection of biometric data. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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