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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: 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!)