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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.
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?
Arr rook same!
Have gnu, will travel.
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.
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.
You kidding? Orwellian surveillance *is* Google's business goal. Any 'life improvement' caused by their products is simply the bait necessary to get people to willingly participate, given their lack of ability to legally force people to carry smartphones etc. (No matter though, since it's a more effective form of compliance assurance than governmental coercion anyway).
Miniluv could never be a government agency, at least not in America.
state glassholes YOU.
... then the "suspects and fugitives from the law" don't have anything to fear...
Say no to software patents.
Indeed. About the most extremely stupid state a citizen can be in.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
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"
In China, black foreigners get routine midnight visits in their homes from the jackbooted police officers. Who will go through your papers and if they find it necessary, your belongings. There is no recourse for this - they are fully within their rights to do so, and you're legally required to register your home address with your local police.
On the streets, it's not just the police who'll grab you every once in a while. The locals themselves will do it. Actively. Blacks are treated like complete and utter human refuse in China. If you're black, you should learn the basics of the language and then visit for a few months. You'll find out what word "racism" actually means.
P.S. Just how pathetically insular are you to think that people who come from outside US and aren't just cursing US for being bad are "Russian trolls"?
Not in China. Issues I'm talking about are in your face in such a harsh fashion, you could not avoid them without living in a literal ivory tower.
The fact that you cannot even imagine a society where these issues would be so "in your face" that you could not ignore them if you had to live and work within this society, even if you maintained your general social bubble merely reinforces my earlier point of your deep naivete on just how different China is from US on the most basic levels of human interaction.
I understand your views and I will stop casting pearls before the swine.
Of course. Because they're Chinese and the system favours them in some ways. And there's still no redress if you have been actually wronged by the system.
Did you not notice at all that my entire complaint was about the fact that people here do not even understand that the system is dramatically different, and as such not comparable?
1. You're completely wrong on China's ethnic situation. Han are nowhere close to 99.999%
2. "Hypothetical" black person? Are you suggesting that African gastarbeiters and African envoys of various types are "hypothetical people" and not actual real living people?
3. US system can and does convict rich people for the same crimes as poor people, using the same legal code. If you knew anything about the history, you'd know that this is a very novel invention in humanity, where traditionally aristocratic class live under both de facto and de jure different legal code. Which also applies in China.
Considering that literally every single point you made is factually wrong, are you sure you want to try to continue flinging shit in hopes that some of it will stick? Because all it does is show the depth of your ignorance on the subject.
You must be utterly unaware of the system and basic principles on which it is built to not believe it.
The fact that you don't even understand the difference between judicial and executive pretty much underscores just how little knowledge you actually have.
It always feels good to hit the nerve of an asshole like you.