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Police In China Are Scanning Travelers With Facial Recognition Glasses (engadget.com)
Baron_Yam shares a report from Engadget: Police in China are now sporting glasses equipped with facial recognition devices and they're using them to scan train riders and plane passengers for individuals who may be trying to avoid law enforcement or are using fake IDs. So far, police have caught seven people connected to major criminal cases and 26 who were using false IDs while traveling, according to People's Daily. The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing-based LLVision Technology Co. developed the devices. The company produces wearable video cameras as well and while it sells those to anyone, it's vetting buyers for its facial recognition devices. And, for now, it isn't selling them to consumers. LLVision says that in tests, the system was able to pick out individuals from a database of 10,000 people and it could do so in 100 milliseconds. However, CEO Wu Fei told the Wall Street Journal that in the real world, accuracy would probably drop due to "environmental noise." Additionally, aside from being portable, another difference between these devices and typical facial recognition systems is that the database used for comparing images is contained in a hand-held device rather than the cloud."
Police in China are now the new Glassholes.
Google and Facebook are already doing it with my own phone!
Once again the fearful USA is left behind by the boldness of China in adopting and utilizing advanced technology. Under globalism, those who do not keep up are destined to be left behind in the dust. There is also a significant first-mover advantage as whoever adopts these technologies first realizes a distinct advantage over the timid ones who wait too long. The American response has been one of avoidance and evasion. Why? Because Americans seem to fear that if they stare at reality squarely, they will find reality staring back in a most discomforting way.
A lot of smart people are starting to argue in favor of the China Model. It avoids the pitfalls of American dumbocracy, of which the hazards are only too clear after the results 2016 election. Political meritocracy has a lot of upside, in fact a better word for it might be "vertical democratic meritocracy". Democracy works well at the lower levels of government. But, in a huge country, as you go up the political chain of command, the issues become more complex and mistakes become more costly. Thereâ(TM)s a need to institutionalize a system to select and promote leaders with superior qualities. China has it, and America is trying with all its might to pretend globalism doesn't exist and it can still get by with its antiquated system. Democracy on the bottom, experimentation in the middle, and meritocracy on top is a good way of thinking about how to govern a large country.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Face recognition just isn't good enough yet for that kind of risk.
They have way too high of a false positive rate, but odds are the higher ups will pull a coverup to hid that and claim great success instead.
As to a portable version with much less processing power, it's just begging to be less accurate.
Of course there will also be false negatives that will let wanted criminals get away, unless they're caught by the normal methods, but I'm more worried about the innocents that will be jailed.
Engadget just reposted what Gizmodo wrote which reposted what WSJ and Sixth Tone wrote.
These are the real sources:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/c...
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/...
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The technology will inevitably make it so that people have no privacy or secrets whatsoever. The technology will soon allow every member of the society to know the location and activities or every other member. Everyone will know others' secrets, and then there will be no secrets between the humans, except those in their thoughts.
The next logical step is that we either adopt telepathic theology or evolve to become a race of telepaths, that like in the Star Trek.
Luckily they are not in the cloud, because that would be unsafe. It is much better to give each individual the database, because what could go wrong?
Or does 'In the cloud' now means 'On a server'? (Was this an example of a rhetorical question).
Not looking at the privacy issues here, just at the technical side of it. Having it on a dedicated server should be a lot safer. The time might go a bit up, but not to seconds. That way when one gets into the wrong hands, it will not be able to abuse it. For a criminal knowing if he will be recognized or not with his fake beard is very interesting information.
Combine it with fingerprint recognition and it should be a lot safer again. Say a device gets stolen and they cut of the police persons finger. That device can still be useless as the device can be blocked from elsewhere. You just block the secure access from that device.
Because what they are doing now is selling the database and you get a free device with it.
If I where a criminal (disclaimer: IANAC) I would not like that they use it, but the way they did it would give me a lot of options.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Some people want to explore the Universe, other want to rule the Earth.
Are you kidding! Our elites will never allow this system to survive them. They're getting their asses kicked right now from leaked emails and documents, and you'll be damn sure this kind of crap doesn't happen again.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"telepathic theology"...media saturation by Franklin Graham and His Merry Band of Rich White Folk?
Space is amazingly big, so big you wouldn't believe it. And filled with radiation. Get over it, the Universe hates us as evidenced by the cue balls it periodically tries to bean us with.
The technology will soon allow every member of the society to know the location and activities or every other member.
No. No it won't. It will allow 'the authorities' and the 1% to know everything about everyone else. This information will not be available to the rest of us.
Well, that's one way to keep them off the streets. It's like a social program that the Republicans like.
Can I get one with a reduced database containing just my friends and people I've met a few times? I need the thing to project a HUD onto my retina and tell me who they are and maybe some metadata about what they do and how we met. People don't like it when I walk past them like they don't exist, and I don't realise I'm doing it.
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
Dude, that's racist. On the racism scale of black to white, that's at least Mexican.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
China really took the Orwellian path.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
Fake news. We all know that all Chinese look the same.
Kelsey Grammar - that's the school in Little Britain, yeah?
Everyone will know others' secrets, and then there will be no secrets between the humans,
I know what you did last summer.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
To me this looks like an example of how these technologies should be used. Rather than for illegal dragnet surveillance and profiling that turns everyone into a suspect, they're using facial recognition to help cops do what they've always done: Look for criminal suspects for whom the police already have probable cause or an arrest warrant. It's probably a lot cheaper and easier to manage than the massive databases of innocent citizens that the NSA, CIA, FBI, DEA, etc., are collecting and is far less likely to suffer from false positives and negatives.
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I would expect an authoritarian government to use all the tools at its disposal to run the country efficiently. Its not something I want to see happen in the US, but seems in line with Chinese policies and not particularly evil.