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UK: The Police Are Scanning the Faces of Every Single Person at Download

13 June 2015

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"This weekend’s Download Festival will be subjected to strategic facial recognition technology by Leicestershire Police, making those 100,000 plus attendees the first music fans to ever be monitored to this extent at a UK music festival, according to UK police news and information website Police Oracle..... The announcement article on Police Oracle reads, "the strategically placed cameras will scan faces at the Download Festival site in Donington before comparing it with a database of custody images from across Europe." [emphasis added].

See the article: The Police Are Scanning the Faces of Every Single Person at Download (noisey, link)

Also see: Cops turn Download Festival into an ORWELLIAN SPY PARADISE - Face recog tech, RFID tracking – gotta love Donington Park (The Register, link) and UK: Police exploit law to collect 18 million facial images (Statewatch database)

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