Judgment Approved by the court for handing down
a)
R (Bridges) v CCSWP and SSHD
‘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 deidentified 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.