This is the history for the submission "Motion by Bailie Martha Wardrop:- "Council notes that Police Forces in England and Wales have been using Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) since 2015 and they have expanded its use in recent years. Some police forces also use what is called "Live Facial Recognition" which involves scanning public spaces and crowds in real time, matching faces against a database of images. Council also notes that Police officers have used facial recognition in various community contexts, including protests, sporting events, concerts, and in busy shopping streets. Council acknowledges that while the technology is in use, there have been legal challenges regarding its use. In the Ed Bridges' case, the Court of Appeal said South Wales Police's use of live facial recognition violated privacy rights and broke data protection and equality laws. Council notes that in 2017, Police Scotland's initial ambition to introduce Live Facial Recognition (LFR) by 2026 as part of their 10-year strategy, 'Policing 2026', however notes their later confirmation in 2020 to not advance this, after a report by the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing stated that there was 'no justifiable basis for Police Scotland to invest in this technology', as well as describing the potential use of LFR as 'a radical departure from Police Scotland's fundamental principle of policing by consent'. Council acknowledges an assessment of the reliability, efficacy, and fairness of Police Scotland's use of retrospective facial recognition (RFR) in March 2025 showed the impracticality of enforcing due to a lack of meaningful data collection. Council understand that the outcome of the Live Facial Recognition (LFR) National Conversation was considered by the Police Authority's Policing Performance Committee on 10 June 2025. Currently, the Scottish Police Authority is not consulting on the introduction of LFR but instead its potential introduction, and that the initial national conversation happening around this is to decide whether or not this work should be taken forward. Council also notes Police Scotland's response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request on 31 March 2025 stating they are considering enhancing CCTV resources with the introduction of Briefcam's object matching software, which also has capabilities to match faces live, although it has been stated they will not use this element of the technology if updated. Council notes its concerns that there is no specific legislation in the UK that governs the use of facial recognition technology by Police, and shares Stop Watch's issues with the technology that it "has been found to amplify and entrench discriminatory policing - particularly in regard to women and racially minoritised communities". Council also notes the European Union has already taken action to ban such technologies and since 2nd February 2025, unacceptable AI technologies including live facial recognition in public spaces, untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage, and biometric-based categorization that infer sensitive information such as ethnic origin, political beliefs, sexual orientation or religion, with the aim of categorising and potentially resulting in discriminatory treatment, are prohibited. Council requests that the Leader of the Council writes to the Chair of the Scottish Police Authority to indicate that it is the view of Glasgow City Council that further work should not progress around the introduction of LFR in Police Scotland."".

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