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Chinese Police Go RoboCop With Facial-Recognition Glasses
Wall Street Journal ^ | Feb. 7, 2018 6:52 a.m. ET | Josh Chin

Posted on 02/07/2018 5:41:10 AM PST by PIF

BEIJING - As hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday, police are showing off a new addition to their crowd-surveillance toolbox: mobile facial-recognition units mounted on eyeglasses ...

The eyeglass-mounted camera is equipped with facial-recognition technology capable of “highly effective screening” of crowds for fugitives traveling under false pretenses ...

The devices have already helped railway police at Zhengzhou’s East Railway Station capture seven people wanted in connection with major criminal cases, and 26 others who were traveling using other people’s identities ...


(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: facialrecognition; sunglasses
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To: PIF

It’s well established that western companies helped China develop their domestic spying capabilities. Verint has a office there, as do other tech companies.


21 posted on 02/07/2018 6:56:08 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

It’s well established that western companies helped China develop their domestic spying capabilities. Verint has a office there, as do other tech companies.

That is equivocating and not answering the questions (who wrote the code and what specific software is used) - you are just making assumptions based on apparently no actual evidence.


22 posted on 02/07/2018 6:58:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

I just told you, verint, is but one example.


23 posted on 02/07/2018 7:05:32 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: PIF

You have a reading comprehension problem.


24 posted on 02/07/2018 7:28:48 AM PST by Professional
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To: Joe 6-pack

Haha. Yep.


25 posted on 02/07/2018 7:47:17 AM PST by discipler (How's that 'hope and change' working for 'ya? - RL)
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To: moovova

Time for that plastic surgery you’ve been wanting.


26 posted on 02/07/2018 7:48:32 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: PIF

“Chinese Police Go RoboCop With Facial-Recognition Glasses”

Pshaw ... gotta also have the holstered submachine gun and full body armor to qualify as a RoboCop ...


27 posted on 02/07/2018 7:55:21 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Professional

You cannot directly answer the questions I asked, rather providing some assumption that the example you gave is actually in use by the Chinese. Thanks for nothing and the ad hominum.


28 posted on 02/07/2018 7:57:59 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

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29 posted on 02/07/2018 9:33:16 AM PST by Professional
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