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posted by martyb on Friday March 30 2018, @09:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-see-what-you-did-there.-signed-Big-Brother dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Friday March 30 2018, @04:43PM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday March 30 2018, @04:43PM (#660430) Journal

    You missed the most important aspect, meatbags' inferiority.
    first, we beat meatbags at chess
    then, we beat meatbags at go
    now, we can tell two Chinese faces apart (!)

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