[DanBC]

> When it does happen, you'll barely notice it either. You'll wake up one day, read the news and discover that somebody was caught using facial recognition technology that the police has been using for a year and it only came out because some court docket had to be made public.

The police is pretty open about the legal powers they have and the technology they use.

And people have already been caught by facial recognition - the submitted article talks about it.

[crdoconnor]

Yeah, I just realized it was about more than human recognizers. The future arrived a little early. Hence the edit.