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As long as you have the resources to sort through 145 people to see if they are your man[0].

The really worrying thing for me is they use the excuse that they are looking for > "potential terrorist targets"

and then say

> "poor quality images" supplied by agencies including Uefa

UEFA is the governing body of the European football championship, now obviously famed for fighting terrorism. Terrorism is the excuse they love to use to take away civil liberties.

It continues to worry me

> over 450 arrests

and then discusses 2 convictions. It is a very worrying world we are slipping into where getting lots of arrests counts as a result

> no-one had been arrested after an incorrect match

This is not for the police to decide, it is for the courts. Hi-five 450 and 2 convictions of note

> The technology has also helped identify vulnerable people in times of crisis.

So it's already being used more generally than arresting terrorists, and football hooligans! It crept up on us over the course of one article!

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/police-defend-fa...



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