PLOD - Police Law On Demand

S4E3 - Automated Facial Recognition technology and the right to privacy – an update

PLOD - Police Law On Demand Season 4 Episode 3

Dijen Basu QC and Daniel Berke meet again to discuss the use of automated facial recognition technology by the police. AFR is capable of scanning 50 face per second from a crowd but raises serious issues under Article 8 of the HRA, the right to privacy, following an appeal in the case of R (Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police & Information Commissioner.