End the use of facial recognition by South Wales Police. Make your voice heard. Take action. 

The use of facial recognition by South Wales police has already been deemed as unlawful by the Court of Appeal. In 2020, the organisation Liberty and Ed Bridges won the world’s first legal challenge against the police's use of the technology. The Court said South Wales Police’s use of intrusive and discriminatory facial recognition violates privacy rights and breaks data protection and equality laws. 

In spite of this, South Wales Police have resumed the use of facial recognition in public spaces. Research, such as that by MIT, has shown that facial recognition can be racially and gender bias, with it being 20 to 30 more times likely to make a mistake when concerning a dark-skinned Black woman.

Facial recognition has been banned in San Francisco, Boston and many other cities. It is incredibly inaccurate, with reports indicating that four out of every five people identified as possible suspects by the Metropolitan Police's facial recognition are innocent.

There is no law for facial recognition, yet creating one to govern its use is neither the answer. Facial recognition is a technology with inbuilt discrimination, and even if made more accurate, it is an attack on our privacy and will always be used disproportionately against people of colour. This is why the only solution is to end South Wales Police's use of the technology and ban it.