Smile, you may be on a federal police camera

By Nino Bucci
February 11 2013 - 3:00am

ABOUT 15,000 people have had images of their faces captured on an Australian Federal Police database in its first year of operation, igniting fears the rise of facial-recognition systems will lead to CCTV cameras being installed on every street corner.

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