NeoFace: How Anonymous Are We To Big Brother Police Agencies?

In July 2014 it was reported that Leicestershire Police began trialling a facial recognition system in April earlier that year.

One of the first polices forces in Britain to do so according to Chief Inspector Chris Cockerill, “We’re very proud to be the first UK Police force to evaluate this new system.”

The biometric system, called NeoFace, was being trialled for six months taking images of members of the public captured from video and photographs taken from CCTV, police body-worn video, digital cameras or even smartphones .... http://21stcenturywire.com