When are facial recognition systems, used for law enforcement, not subject to a data protection regime?
19 September 2019
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This blog concerns the information processed by the facial recognition system used by South Wales Police (SWP) in the recent judicial review case (see references). In summary, I don’t think the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA2018) applies to most of this processing because the information processed by the system is not personal data. This is not the conclusion the Court arrived at in its recent judgment (the “SWP judgment”); the blog explains what this judgement missed and why its conclusions
