The future of government is digital - Raconteur

At this year's Notting Hill Carnival, the Metropolitan Police used facial recognition technology for the first time. Paul Wiles, the biometrics commissioner, reported that it was a test to see how the technology performed in such a bustling scenario. In theory, police records of 20 million faces can be cross-referenced with other crime data to identify likely offenders. In fact, we are seeing an explosion in new tech across the public sphere. Until now the model has been somewhat conservative, digitising processes humans once did.