Reply to post: Where's the face data from?

Plot twist: Google's not spying on King's Cross with facial recognition tech, but its landlord is

Aging Hippy

Where's the face data from?

So they install face recognition technology but what do they compare the faces against? Will Mr Plod give them a pictures of known baddies? Will they harvest profile pictures from Face-de-bouc?

What are they going to do when a face matches? Declare an orange alert and send in Rover?

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