This is a summary of the judgment R (Bridges) v the Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2020] EWCA Civ 1058. The Court of Appeal considered whether or not the use of automated facial recognition technology by the police breached Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and whether they had complied with the public sector equality duty to consider the risk of indirect discrimination.

The cases mentioned in this podcast are:

R(Catt) v Association of Chief Police Officers [2015] UKSC 9

Re Gallagher [2019] 2 WLR 509

Bank Mellat v Her Majesty’s Treasury (No 2) [2014] AC 700

R(Bracking) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWCA Civ 1345

‘Facial Recognition and Detection Technology: Developments and Challenges’, Communications Law Journal (2020) Vol 25, No 3