A marked police van will be used outside major events or in crowded areas to live scan the faces of people walking past, in an Australian first.
The faces of people will be matched against a database of people with outstanding arrest warrants and registered child sex offenders, as well as missing persons.
“This is not about mass surveillance,” [the police commissioner] said, “This is about specifying those in our community who are wanted by police.”
While the trial only includes one marked van, the police commissioner is not ruling out further covert technology being used in the future, including at protests.
Imma leave this here. Story about this tech at sports stadiums in the US. I kinda wish Australia would not be joining us in building out Orwellian panopticons.
Another incident saw a mother booted from a Rockettes show she was going to see with her 9 year old daughter, just because she worked for a law firm that had been involved with personal injury cases against a restaurant under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment. … Madison Square Garden isn’t the only example of excessive surveillance. It’s seemingly becoming less and less possible to exist in public without being constantly under watch.