UK bouncers to trial body cams with facial recognition

In Southampton, England, bouncers at seven different venues will wear cameras with facial recognition in a 3 month trial to combat crime and identify barred individuals, according to Daily Echo.

GO! Southampton, the city's business improvement district, partnered with security firm Synergy Security to run the trial, which is the first in the UK. The trial will use Reveal’s digital evidence management system, DEMS 360, which is the same system used by roughly 70 percent of UK police. …

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