对面部识别的首次法律挑战

Ed Bridges购物期间被南威尔士警方使用设备拍了照片，随后他通过法律手段对这设备的使用提出质疑。
Ed Bridges has launched the first major legal challenge over South Wales Police's use of the equipment after his picture was taken while shopping.
由于在公共场合被强制脸部识别，他汇集力量向南威尔士警方提出法律挑战。这个世界上首例针对这项有争议的技术（脸部识别）案件已经结束，两名主要法官驳回了人权运动组织“自由”代表Ed Bridges提起的请求。
He crowdfunded a legal challenge against South Wales Police after his face was scanned in public. As the world's first case against the controversial technology concluded, two leading judges dismissed the case brought by human rights campaign group Liberty on behalf of Ed Bridges.
在Swift法官身旁的Haddon-Cave大法官总结道，南威尔士警方使用实时人脸识别“符合《人权法》的要求”。Haddon-Cave大法官在高等法院陈述，“目前的法律制度足够可以确保适当和任意地使用自动面部识别定位”，而自动面部识别定位是南威尔士警方使用的一种面部识别技术。
Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, sitting with Mr Justice Swift, concluded that South Wales Police's use of live facial recognition "met the requirements of the Human Rights Act". Speaking in the High Court, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave said "the current legal regime is adequate to ensure the appropriate and non-arbitrary use of AFR Locate" - the facial recognition technology used by South Wales Police.
Bridges在一份声明中说道：“这种不道德的技术侵犯了我们的隐私，我将继续反对这技术的不合法使用，以确保我们的权利得到保护，我们不能受政府的过度监督。”自由派律师Megan Goulding说：“这个判决令人失望，没有反映出人脸识别已经对我们的权利和自由造成非常严重的威胁。”
"This sinister technology undermines our privacy and I will continue to fight against its unlawful use to ensure our rights are protected and we are free from disproportionate government surveillance," Bridges said in a statement. Liberty lawyer Megan Goulding said: "This disappointing judgment does not reflect the very serious threat that facial recognition poses to our rights and freedoms.
自动面部识别技术（AFR），是通过测量面部特征之间的距离来映射人群中的面部，然后将结果与“观察名单”上的图像进行比较。信息专员被描述为审查中的“介入者”，而不是投诉人。
Automatic facial recognition (AFR) technology maps faces in a crowd by measuring the distance between facial features then compares results with images on a "watch list". The information commissioner is described as an "intervener" in the review, but is not a complainant.