16.06.2015 - 18:24 [ Techdirt ]

UK Police Carry Out Facial Scans Of 100,000 People Attending Music Festival

Last year, Techdirt wrote about Boston Police performing a test run of its facial recognition software on those attending a local music festival. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in the UK, land of a million CCTV cameras, the police have taken things even further. As this story in Noisey explains, drawing on a report on the Police Oracle site (registration required):