Going to the Donington Park Download Festival? Then prepare to be tracked...

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**zedmeister**

Seems that you can't even enjoy a simple past time without being logged and recorded in a police 'future crime' custody system:

As if being ankle deep in muddy field, surrounded by pretend hippies seemingly re-enacting highlights of the Battle of Waterloo was bad enough, attendees of the aptly named Download Festival will be subjected to a new police facial recognition system, and surveillance of their onsite location and expenditure via the debut of RFID wristbands.

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Looks like the Plod aren't happy that this is being reported either

We have also learned that the Police Oracle's publication of the interview has caused significant upset for management at Leicestershire Police, who did not want any advance publicity of their "new" surveillance project.

The public would have been informed that it had been placed under surveillance after the event had ended, presumably as part of a "you didn't know, therefore it wasn't intrusive", justification for the scheme.

**Ratius**

Stupid heavy metal influencing our poor kids.