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Chinese Police Begin Tracking Citizens With Face-Recognizing Smart Glasses (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Reuters:
At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features and car registration plates, and match them in real-time with a database of suspects. The AI-powered glasses, made by LLVision, scan the faces of vehicle occupants and the plates, flagging with a red box and warning sign to the wearer when any match up with a centralized "blacklist".
The test -- which coincides with the annual meeting of China's parliament in central Beijing -- underscores a major push by China's leaders to leverage technology to boost security in the country... Wu Fei, chief executive of LLVision, said people should not be worried about privacy concerns because China's authorities were using the equipment for "noble causes", catching suspects and fugitives from the law. "We trust the government," he told Reuters at the company's headquarters in Beijing.
This weekend while China's President Xi Jinping is expected to push through a reform allowing him to stay in power indefinitely, Reuters reports that the Chinese goverment is pushing the use of cutting-edge technology "to track and control behavior that goes against the interests of the ruling Communist Party online and in the wider world... A key concern is that blacklists could include a wide range of people stretching from lawyers and artists to political dissidents, charity workers, journalists and rights activists...
"The new technologies range from police robots for crowd control, to drones to monitor border areas, and artificially intelligent systems to track and censor behavior online," Reuters reports, citing one Hong Kong researcher who argues that China now sees internet and communication technologies "as absolutely indispensable tools of social and political control."
The test -- which coincides with the annual meeting of China's parliament in central Beijing -- underscores a major push by China's leaders to leverage technology to boost security in the country... Wu Fei, chief executive of LLVision, said people should not be worried about privacy concerns because China's authorities were using the equipment for "noble causes", catching suspects and fugitives from the law. "We trust the government," he told Reuters at the company's headquarters in Beijing.
This weekend while China's President Xi Jinping is expected to push through a reform allowing him to stay in power indefinitely, Reuters reports that the Chinese goverment is pushing the use of cutting-edge technology "to track and control behavior that goes against the interests of the ruling Communist Party online and in the wider world... A key concern is that blacklists could include a wide range of people stretching from lawyers and artists to political dissidents, charity workers, journalists and rights activists...
"The new technologies range from police robots for crowd control, to drones to monitor border areas, and artificially intelligent systems to track and censor behavior online," Reuters reports, citing one Hong Kong researcher who argues that China now sees internet and communication technologies "as absolutely indispensable tools of social and political control."
Someone should start air-dropping portable EMP devices and jammers to dissidents in China.
This is an outrageous trampling of civil rights on the part of China. Our leadership will definitely need to have a long talk with China about how to make said trampling work here. They have to be prepared for the post-Trump mandate they will have to make massive changes to our country.
ago. This is right out of the season finale.
Hollywood does a damned good job, but how long before some company sells cotton balls that will stay comfortably in your cheeks for hours at a time, or shit, I dunno, wigs, eye glasses. Be fun to see the Chinese RaceYouToTheBottom companies try to keep up with Chinese surveillance, and watch lessons learned be sold here in the good ol U S of A.
That word apparently is a euphemism in China for "ensuring none of the work-units (aka human beings) have anything even remotely resembling civil rights". How much of a shithole is China to live in? How long with >1 billion people put up with shit like this before there is a bloody revolt? Or will China go the way of al-Assad and just kill their own citizens wholesale? Seriously, how can our species call itself "civilized" when, in 2018, we have shit like the above going on in the world? Rhetorical question; we're NOT civilized, we're violent animals with toys. And guns. And bombs. And, apparently, we don't give a flying fuck about anyone.
How are they pulling this off technically? I can't imagine what sort of queries you'd need to do for facial recognition, and how many per second in a sea of people? Are they getting good results or is it just timing out on most people or what?
It's likely the government would have balked at this tracking if their cops only had access to the traditional "alternatives:" pointing regular camera-type devices at people or waving phones or tablets around instead of putting more useful things to occupy their gun-hands.
This smartglass idea would not have been such low-hanging fruit for world governments without the... "courageous"... example / notoriety of Google's Glass experiment gracing our streets and bars some years ago.
It's a shame that although China's authorities will use this stuff and slowly be copied virally elsewhere (think cryptocoin clone fads, disappearing headphone jacks, Apple notches)... we, the civilian normies in "free" societies just can't fight the stigmas of trying to use smartglasses in the post-Glass era... Google's business goals and poor execution made sure to tarnish a potentially-useful concept even for private tasks. Think of the ever-worsening situation with civilian drones. ;)
Meanwhile, it's a win for China's panopticon... over there, it isn't a big cultural change and things won't turn sour the way they did here. If it does turn sour, well, "they" know who *you* are now and will have an easier path of retaliation... at least when you're not in profile angle, low-light, dark eyewear and facial hair circumstances
Arr rook same!
Have gnu, will travel.
That's a nice bike. He then takes off his glasses and has glowing red eyes.,
"We trust the government," wow, really
Combine a Communist Dictatorship with an economy dedicated to controlling the world and.....
I distinctly recall people telling us "why they would need hundreds of thousands of censors to control the internet in China!"
Guess what? They did just that.
It's right out of books I read 30 years ago.
always with the whataboutism
there isn't much difference. that doesn't mean china gets a pass.
The difference between America and China is in the US, the government watches the peoples money to control them but China is still heavy cash based so they have to use watching people to control the population. Once China becomes more plastic cash card oriented they will not have to use the cameras as much.
America is car based but China is more pedestrian. That is why US police cars have cameras that have license plate recognition and China has facial recognition. Do not worry America, soon the police body cams will have face recognition.
Why? What is so important about everyone else that you have to have the ability .. Let alone time to run EVERYbody elses life... Wtf... Get a clue.... Sing, dance, learb to play an unstrument.. SOMEthing..grow... Destruction is easy... Creation is a bitch. Personaly .. I prefer bitches to ho's. Just a.. Not sayin that i dont like hos....... .... Im straite . Mmmmmmmpuuuuuussssssayyyyy tatst .. Ill shut up now.
Waldo moment? Only the very end is similar. Just wait, the next step for the Chinese is Metal Head, fully automatic dissident hunting.
OF MONEY$$$$$$$
For all those people saying that Huawei phones were not more dangerous than any other phones, remember they come from a state where government intervention in telecommunication companies is required.
And that government does things like this and also this:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-new-tool-for-social-control-a-credit-rating-for-everything
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions/
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/02/08/0542205/police-in-china-are-scanning-travelers-with-facial-recognition-glasseson
Double-visioned much?
... to buy a lot of his surveillance product.
People must indeed trust their government. Alas, China has shown that they will abuse almost anybody in the name of government. Their authoritarian behaviour varies little from the USA: China is willing to plant its jackboot on the majority of the population.. To be fair, cameras in public are not new in most countries and tend to not qualify as 'fishing', since it is searching for known criminals; or in China's case, 'criminals'.
I've got a degree in AI... believe it or not... and I've seen enough in this field to know precisely what can be done.
Just go upstairs! Those ED-209's cant climb stairs hardly at all! Or Daleks come to think of it but those are more cyborg than robot..
state glassholes YOU.
... then the "suspects and fugitives from the law" don't have anything to fear...
Say no to software patents.
Or COLLECTING a database of Americans and any other foreigners.
So Geek Squad sifting through your files isn't just as bad? Or many major cities using similar technology at airports and subways? Tell me where you can go in a major population center that does not have camera's everywhere that may indeed to be accessed by many authorities. Yeah, maybe the US is not China yet, but clearly we have to potential to become one.
Well done Ivan, nearly had us believing you. If you knew the first thing about America it should be the selective policing, pulling people over for driving while black etc. Stop and frisk (if you're black obviously) and separate rules for the poor and rich.
'China now sees internet and communication technologies "as absolutely indispensable tools of social and political control.'
So do Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. etc. . .
After being online for less than 15 minutes, the computer that controls the Chinese governments Facial Recognition system crashed. The computer, exasperated reported:
"Fatal Error 70013 - They All Look the Same"
Especially when trying to point out the naivete of others. Half a year living and working in which country? Because both are much more diverse than you seem to understand. You could easily live and work for much longer and have absolutely no understanding of either country outside you little 'get up, go to work, do job, go home' bubble.
In America, on the streets a black person is automatically a suspect. You won't just have problems with police. You'll have old women from the Bingo club who will follow you when they see you on the street, and when they think you're doing something suspicious, they'll report you to the police.
Who will likely detain you for a few hours for questioning.
The fact that you think even remotely that China is in the same ballpark when it comes to human rights as America, or heck, playing the same game, you're beyond naive. Get out and see the US for yourself. Because you're desperately in need of a reality check.
Yep, America will never be dominated by a small group, say .01% of people, will they.
Keep On Voting !!
You don't understand shit. If you did, you would know most parts of China don't even have any black people to oppress. So it's rather unlikely you would be seeing it in your day to day work life.
What a fucking imbecile you must be. Asking you what your favorite colour is will have no bearing on the sky being blue.My prefered system of government/court structure or any other distraction will not change the fact America is not the ideal you claim it to be. If you can't see the facts as clearly as everyone else can, maybe you need to get your glasses fixed or actually visit America and see for yourself how unjust the system in actuality is. Not your fantasy version of it.