"Along with the help of personalised entrance tickets and face scanners, notorious rioters can be effectively kept out of the stadiums," said Caffier in a statement.A note:
"We have to go beyond the current discussions," he said.
A study has been commissioned to determine the practical and legal feasibility of using the technology in stadiums, after which a pilot run of the scanners will be carried out.
In a country that has had a difficult relationship with surveillance in the past, any form of monitoring the population is met with suspicion.
"This idea is a disgrace to democracy and is reminiscent of Orwell's 1984," said Philipp Markhardt, spokesman for the national Pro-Fans association.
In the hardware world as it relates to facial recognition, there really isn't any such thing as a "face scanner." Facial recognition is something that happens when certain software is applied to images collected by ordinary cameras. You might use a flat-bed scanner to get an image into a computer, but it's still just a photo scanner, not a face scanner.
h/t @m2sys
