China Police Now Uses These Face-Scanning Glasses To Catch Criminals

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China Police Now Uses These Face-Scanning Glasses To Catch Criminals

So far the glasses have identified people suspected of misdeeds ranging from traffic infringements to crimes like human trafficking.

A further 26 people using fake identity documents were not able to travel because of their document were fake .

In China, people must use identity documents for train travel. This rule works to prevent people with excessive debt from using high-speed trains.

And limit the movement of religious minorities who have had identity documents confiscated and can wait years to get a valid passport.

While this is the first time Chinese officials is making use of glasses to implement facial-recognition.  The technology is now widely in use by police.

China is also currently building a system that will recognize any of its 1.3 billion citizens in three seconds.

These programmes have been condemned by human-rights groups that say this implementation of the technology infringes on people’s right to privacy.

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“Chinese authorities seem to think they can achieve ‘social stability’ by placing people under a microscope.

But these abusive programmes are more likely to deepen hostility towards the government,”.

Sophie Richardson, China director of Human Rights Watch, previously said about different facial recognition technology.

It is also in use to monitor religious minorities. “Beijing should immediately stop these programmes, and destroy all data gathered without full, informed consent.”

The glasses are likely here to stay, having arrived just weeks. That is before Chinese New Year with expectation that 389 million train trips will be available between Feb 1 and March 12.

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