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China has been using biometric technologies for a while to scan the public. Now they are being used to identify jaywalkers and send them warning via SMS, along with a fine.
China plans to roll out a national social credit system by 2020, which will keep a record of citizens' violation of laws and directly affect their ability to do things like get a loan or get hired for a job. According to the South China Morning Post, devices like the jaywalking facial recognition system will be part of this network to keep track of the number of jaywalking violations and change a person's social credit score accordingly.
Major cities have already deployed similar facial recognition activities to monitor traffic behavior and track drivers.
From Motherboard : China Is Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages.
See also South China Morning Post : Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by lgsoynews on Friday March 30 2018, @09:57AM (3 children)
Even if we manage to ignore the HORRID Big Brother and general creepiness of the idea...
We all know that face recognition has a HUGE set of limitations (and I hope it remains that way for a LONG time, for privacy/liberty issues), so you can expect a LOT of wrong people receiving unjust fines (ALL those fines are unjust, but I'm talking in the context of this law) and bad "social credit" scores.
Given that the chinese awful administration likes to keep very close tabs on its citizens (look also at the recent stories about "bad social credit" people banned from transportation), how can one fight against a wrong accusation that will not only cost money but also be a permanent "black mark" against you?
I'll bet you can't, especially since those people will never acknowledge errors (losing face), so you are fucked.
I'd also be interested to know how they will handle twins...
That being said, the REAL issue here is that awful "national social credit system". I shudder when I think of that idea...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Friday March 30 2018, @11:06AM
Very simple: it is illegal not to be recognized by Big Brother. Problem solved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @11:12AM
Will you please finally get that moronic ideas of "fairness" and "justice" out of your head? Because nobody cares. Well, nobody important, anyway.
As long as people are sufficiently cowed to not rebel en-masse against the powers that be, all is well.
(BTW: that's the whole of China's recorded history in 96 characters!)
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 30 2018, @11:07PM
> national social credit system
You are right. Really, people, read it again.
This is the synthesis of
- nationalism
- socialism
- capitalism
- technocracy
all rolled in one. AND THEY SAID IT COULD NOT BE DONE. All you needed was to take the worst of each component. Genius.
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