"NZ Police setting up $9m facial recognition system which can identify people from CCTV feed."

NZ Police set up facial recognition system, illegally, hoped no-one would notice.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300095573/police-setting-up-9m-facial-recognition-system-which-can-identify-people-from-cctv-feed

"Some of this information is contained in an Official Information Act (OIA) response police provided to Stuff last year, but tried to withhold from RNZ last week, until a complaint was made to the Ombudsman."

That's right, the Police disobeyed an OIA and lied about it.

"RNZ made inquiries with other agencies after revealing that the Internal Affairs Department has been - quietly, too - setting up a $20m passport processing system."

1984 is here….