Chinese police have used facial recognition technology to locate and arrest a man who was among a crowd of 60,000 concert goers. The suspect, who has been identified only as Mr Ao, was attending a concert by pop star Jacky Cheung in Nanchang city last weekend when he was caught. Police said the 31-year-old, who was wanted for "economic crimes", was "shocked" when he was caught.
China has a huge surveillance network of over 170 million CCTV cameras.
Mr Ao was identified by cameras at the concert's ticket entrance, and apprehended by police after he had sat down with other concert goers. "The suspect looked completely caught by surprise when we took him away," police officer Li Jin told state news agency Xinhua.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @09:47PM
i always wondered why some criminals are so stupid as to announce their intentions and then act surprised when they are caught because of it.
then again my house got a little robbed when I dared go to a funeral of a relative of my girlfriend that lived with me at the time; someone must have checked the obits and looked for last names and scoped out the address. don't need social media for that, as its an old trick. the stupidity in that is her relatives posted the times and dates and relative names and all that so anyone with a mind could determine who wont be home and for how long.