Judgment Approved by the court for handing down.
R (Bridges) -v- CC South Wales & ors
a) 'lawfulness and fairness'
The lawfulness of South Wales Police processing is derived from
its official functions as a UK police service, which includes the
investigation and detection of crime and the apprehension of
offenders, including acting in obedience to court warrants that
require the arrest of defendants who have failed to attend court.
b) 'data minimisation'
South Wales police only processes sensitive personal data when
permitted to do so by law. Such personal data is collected for
explicit and legitimate purposes such as biometric data during
the deployment of Automatic Facial Recognition technology.
c) 'accuracy'
During AFR Locate deployments South Wales Police collects
the information necessary to determine whether the individual is
on a watchlist. If an intervention is made the process will not
prompt data subjects to answer questions and provide
information that is not required.
Where processing is for research and analysis purposes,
wherever possible this is done using anonymised or de-identified
data sets.
d) 'storage limitation'
Providing complete and accurate information is required when
constructing a watchlist. During AFR Locate deployments
watchlists will be constructed on the day of deployment and
where the deployments extend beyond 24 hours these will be
amended daily. Where permitted by law and when it is
reasonable and proportionate to do so, South Wales Police may
check this information with other organisations – for example
other police and law enforcement services. If a change is
reported by a data subject to one service or a part of South Wales
Police, whenever possible this is also used to update the AFR
application, both to improve accuracy and avoid the data subject
having to report the same information multiple times.
e) 'integrity and confidentiality'
South Wales Police has a comprehensive set of retention policies
in place which are published online, further information specific
to AFR can be found on SWP AFR webpage.
All staff handling South Wales Police information are security
cleared and required to complete annual training on the
importance of security, and how to handle information
appropriately.