UK Festival’s Orwellian Style Total Surveillance
“It is one of the first times it has been trialled outside, normally it is done in a controlled environment.
There has also been a lot of interest from other festivals and they are saying: ‘If it works, can we borrow it?’” (Vice Magazine)
DC Kevin Walker from Leicestershire Police confirms to the Police Oracle that the English police force scanned every single reveller at last weekend’s heavy metal event Download with facial recognition technology to compare then against European ‘wanted’ databases.
