The UK is expanding the use of live facial recognition technology. This can be a problem from the point of view of @echr.coe.int as this is an interference with the right to privacy under Article 8. The case Glukhin v Russia is a reference point here. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Home Office says the technology helps locate suspects but civil liberties groups warn of heightened surveillance.
Many thanks to @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social for proposing the event and
Tyrone Steele for agreeing to moderate. I am very much looking forward to visiting Liverpool for the first time.
I’ll be speaking, alongside Lord Wolfson KC and Professor Vernika Fikfak, at a panel event on reform of the ECHR at Liverpool University on Thursday 4 June. Full details (including how to register) can be found below.
New and highly topical paper on @echr.coe.int and climate litigation in our advance access.
