{"id":59386,"date":"2017-04-28T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59386"},"modified":"2017-04-28T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:03:20","slug":"bloomberg-champions-league-final-police-to-scan-soccer-fans-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59386","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Champions League Final Police to Scan Soccer Fans&#8217; Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security at this year\u2019s Champions League final will be aided by facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>Police will be able to match soccer fans\u2019 faces against a database of known offenders in real-time, according to a contract worth 170,000 pounds ($210,000) posted on the U.K. government\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UEFA Champions League finals in Cardiff give us a unique opportunity to test and prove the concept of this technology in a live operational environment,\u201d South Wales Police Chief Superintendent Jon Edwards said in an emailed statement, adding that it should provide a basis for further use of the technology by police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-04-27\/champions-league-final-police-to-scan-soccer-fans-faces\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security at this year\u2019s Champions League final will be aided by facial recognition technology. Police will be able to match soccer fans\u2019 faces against a database of known offenders in real-time, according to a contract worth 170,000 pounds ($210,000) posted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59386\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445,578,128,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wales-england-uk","category-policefire","category-sports","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59388,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386\/revisions\/59388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}