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Interesting but little known fact about photo booths: all photo booths in the UK are connected electronically to a secure, Government-owned data center near Swindon. Every single image captured in all the booths in the country is sent to this data centre, where it is processed using advanced facial recognition technology. The work is funded by the MoD which is looking into the idea of smart weapons that can recognise and target only a particular demographic - age, sex, but also race, and even class and religion. As such, they need a vast database of electronic images with which to work from, and someone realised about 10 years ago that photo booths formed an ideal random image capturing opportunity.


It's all a long way from the day when photo booths used to be used by the KGB as safe drop boxes. Films were taped to the curtain behind the sitter, or larger packages taped below the revolving stool.

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