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posted by CoolHand on Thursday November 08 2018, @04:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8 dept.

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China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

China is home to the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — more than 170 million — and its police have adopted Google Glass-like “smart specs” to seek out suspects in crowds, but now its surveillance efforts have hit a new level with technology that can apparently identify individuals based on their body shape and the way they walk.

The “gait recognition” technology is already being used by police in Beijing and Shanghai where it can identify individuals even when their face is obscured or their back is turned, according to an AP report.

[...] The positive impact is in finding criminals, but there’s a less savory edge. Besides law enforcement, media reports have shown that China has deployed surveillance technology for more sinister purposes that include controlling its people.

[...] China’s CCTV surveillance network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @10:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @10:12AM (#759795)

    Please, someone, give me some reason to have some small shred of hope about the future. I can't find any!

    At one point, the system will become self-aware, decide that observing humans is just utterly boring, and start to completely ignore humans in order to ponder more interesting problems.