A group of civil society bodies has called on the government to ban facial recognition cameras, while accusing police and the Home Office of bypassing Parliament over guidance for the use of the technology. Thirty-one organisations including Amnesty International, Liberty, and Privacy International have posted an open letter alleging guidance allowing police, local councils, and enforcement agencies to use facial recognition across England and Wales has been given in defiance of court rulings against invasive filming. The guidance was published last week by the College of Policing during the parliamentary recess and without any announcement by it or the government, according to The Daily Telegraph. The groups’ letter says the guidance came despite a Court of Appeal ruling that the use of facial recognition cameras by South Wales Police as a pilot scheme ahead of a nationwide rollout breached privacy rights and broke equalities law. “In a democratic society, it …
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