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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @12:59PM
With a fundamental right to privacy and constitutional controls restricting if, where, and how your government can use such security measures, and what data retention they are allowed if they do. This is such a slippery slope on a national and international level that it could lead to the sort of dystopian hells we've read about for 100 years very easily by itself.