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UK FACIAL RECOGNITION – NO CONSENT, NO OVERSIGHT
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/uk-facial-recognition-no-consent-no-oversight/
On 3 February 2023, the Wales cross-party group on digital rights and democracy – for which Open Rights Group serves as the secretariat – held its fourth session on surveillance and facial recognition technology in the UK.

Chaired by Sarah Murphy MS, the session heard powerful accounts from campaigner Ed Bridges, who launched the groundbreaking challenge Ed Bridges vs South Wales Police, Madeleine Stone from Big Brother Watch and researcher Stephanie Hare.

While justice and policing are not devolved in Wales, Murphy stressed how important it was to have the discussion when the decisions on rights are being made elsewhere – Westminster and the Home Office. And as the speakers iterated, technology is having a resounding effect on the right to privacy, discrimination, bias and children’s rights.