Police scans 90.000 faces of visitors at the Download Music Festival

Police officers trialled facial recognition software for the first time at Download Music Festival on Donington Park in North West Leicestershire this year. The software does not take anyone’s photograph, or store their picture, and there is less than 0.2% chance of someone being identified wrongly as a subject on the database.

It compares faces to a database of police held custody images of people who are known by the police, across Europe, to target music festivals to commit crime. The database was destroyed at the end of the event.

Read more at http://www.trendsderzukunft.de/polizei-scannt-heimlich-ueber-90-000-gesichter-beim-download-musik-festival/2015/06/18/
and https://www.leics.police.uk/news-appeals/news/2015/06/15/download-success-see-you-in-2016

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