A Wanted Man in China Has Been Caught Because of Facial Recognition Software (fastcompany.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The man was reportedly caught after facial recognition software running on cameras at a concert identified him, reports AbacusNews. That's despite there being over 50,000 people attending the concert, which took place in Nanchang, China. Law enforcement in the country has increasingly been turning to facial recognition software to surveil the public for persons of interest.

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Re:In soviet Russia

[Mr D from 63]

I do wonder how many false alerts they got along the way.

Re:And?

[barc0001]

It's worthy of a news story because the environment that this facial recognition did its job in and "worked as advertised" is a massively challenging problem for this type of system. It's also worthy of a news story because it is a harbinger of more to come like this, and not just in China. As this tech gets better, agencies will be able to track everyone's movements in public 24/7 and store all of it for unknown purposes. Today it's criminals, tomorrow it's people on no fly lists (rightly or wrongly) getting "randomly" stopped, the day after it's persons of interest, and so it goes. Eventually everyone will become used to having an invisible boot on their neck.

Re:decent riot control too

[Karmashock]

occupy was asking for what?

What would have been a win condition for occupy?

What is more, the peacefulness of occupy is questionable.

First they were camping there and making a mess. You don't need to do that. MLK Jr didn't do that. They had peaceful orderly civilized clean sit ins and then went home every day to their homes.

Second, there was quite a lot of harassment in those camps and near them.

Third, they attracted a lot of gross hippies that caused crime to jump up in the area. Drugs, prostitution, rape, etc.

Look, if you want to solve your problems by being violent then you're basically betting you have more force on your side than all other factions combined. Because even if you think you outnumber some anti group to you. Do you ALSO outnumber the non-aligned people that want peace and order? Do you outnumber the people that just want to go to work every day and not get harassed by smelly hippies blocking the road?

You don't.

Which means if you actually escalate you'll get physically beaten until you submit or killed.

If that is what you want to do, then do it, comrade.

All your ideas accomplish if taken to their logical conclusion is install a tyrant that takes away everyone's rights, murders anyone that disagrees with him, and creates a class based power structure where people like you and me will just become peasants under a new nobility.

And if and when you do that where I live... I will just leave you to starve in that shit. My family came from countries that had fallen to tyranny. We left. And I'll leave again. I will not suffer the consequences of your foolishness. I will leave you to starve in burned out cities surviving on people's skinned pets.