There are also unresolved questions about how spectator bans can be enforced at lower-tier facilities for women's, youth, state league or other grassroots matches, where the security presence is greatly reduced in comparison to the stadiums where the full-time professionals play. FA chief executive James Johnson admitted on Tuesday that stadium bans were "complex" but not impossible to implement, and required close collaboration and information sharing between sporting bodies, security and police to allow those manning stadium entry points to identify banned supporters. Victoria Police say the enforcement of stadium bans is a matter for host clubs and venues.Credit:Getty Images According to industry sources, however, the system is imperfect and, in many ways, archaic, heavily reliant on the memories of security staff and their ability to quickly match patrons with photos, names or other data related to people on banned lists. Inevitably, some slip through the net, and often they are the ones who can cause trouble at a sporting event. One obvious but highly controversial and almost dystopian solution appears to be gaining traction in Australia and throughout the world: facial recognition technology, which was rolled out in cameras throughout the SCG precinct in 2018 and has been in place at Sydney's major stadia ever since.

Over the past year schools across the UK have implemented contactless technology to deliver hot school lunches safely and efficiently. But now, as schools return to normal operations, there's a new type of software powering contactless transactions: facial recognition. Pre-order, cashless payments and contactless are just some of the buzzwords we've heard over the past year, especially regarding school payments and the safe delivery of nutritious school meals. Now more than ever, schools are looking to technology for contactless solutions that increase efficiencies. In 2021, CRB Cunninghams, cashless catering, online payment, and identity management solutions provider to education establishments, launched facial recognition software to UK secondary schools.