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UK court docket guidelines police use of facial recognition was illegal

In a landmark choice, judges stated South Wales Police's use of facial recognition breached human rights and information safety legal guidelines.
In a landmark decision, judges said South Wales Police's use of facial recognition breached human rights and data protection laws.

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  2. "Portland is the first city in the US to bar both businesses and public agencies from using facial recognition. Will the rest of the country follow its lead?". (September 10, 2020)
  3. "Remember the time when Facebook used to automatically tag you in photos uploaded by your friends using facial recognition? Now the company has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for using the technology in Illinois". (January 30, 2020)
  4. "We live in an age where we have unprecedented access to almost any information we need. With the emergence of new technology likeartificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, big data, and more, the human experience is being changed forever". (March 25, 2020)
  5. "Facebook today named the members of its Oversight Board, an independent body that could, in theory, help Facebook fix its many modernation problems". (May 7, 2020)
  6. "The IRS says Facebook intentionally undervalued intellectual property it transfered to an Irish subsidiary in order to avoid paying taxes". (February 19, 2020)
  7. "The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Armys corporate research department, last week published a pre-print paper documenting the development of an image database for training AI to perform facial recognition using thermal images". (January 12, 2021)
  8. "TheEUs digital and competition chief has said that automated facial recognition breaches GDPR as it doesn't gain consent". (February 17, 2020)
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