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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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Will be all the rage here in US soon ...
1 posted on 02/07/2018 5:41:11 AM PST by PIF
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To: PIF

It doesn’t show in the image I posted, but in the full picture the sunglasses are hardwired to a portable devise which looks like a Samsung phone.


2 posted on 02/07/2018 5:43:09 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

“What difference at this point does it make? They all look alike anyway.”


3 posted on 02/07/2018 5:51:15 AM PST by moovova
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To: PIF

4 posted on 02/07/2018 5:53:16 AM PST by moovova
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"The devices have already helped railway police at Zhengzhou’s East Railway Station capture seven people wanted in connection with major criminal cases..."

I wonder what kind of major criminal case...meeting in secret to pray? Cracking jokes about the premier? Engaging in non-state sanctioned private enterprise?

5 posted on 02/07/2018 5:59:23 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: moovova

All silliness aside...this is scary stuff. Our DHS has probably already ordered 100,000 pair from China. They’ll come complete with a Chinese hacker backdoor.

SEE: “Minority Report”.


6 posted on 02/07/2018 5:59:58 AM PST by moovova
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To: PIF

Not “RoboCop.”

“Minority Report.”


7 posted on 02/07/2018 6:01:24 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: moovova

gmta:)


8 posted on 02/07/2018 6:01:53 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: PIF

And it’s American tech companies that provide the equipment for China to spy and control their people. Lawmakers should criminalize corporate involvement in these matters. What next, American companies making equipment for gas chambers to execute people?


9 posted on 02/07/2018 6:02:07 AM PST by Professional
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To: Joe 6-pack

Read the article on what kind of cases - all sorts I would imagine.

When US cops and feds get these glasses, you will be picked out of a crowd for your unpaid parking tickets, Federal income tax, and whatever other offense can be imagined and, of course, immediately arrested.


10 posted on 02/07/2018 6:02:42 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: moovova

And image banks have been built courtesy of Fakecrook and other sites.

Even if you don’t have a Facebook account, data profiles are being built up about you, “Friend of” in several photos, identified once or twice, or #Anon445993723 who lives in xyz, is male, is seen in the company of...


11 posted on 02/07/2018 6:03:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: PIF

Scofflaw immigrants will be granted exception.

Laws only apply to US citizens with money to pay fines.


12 posted on 02/07/2018 6:04:27 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: PIF
IBTTLR


13 posted on 02/07/2018 6:05:33 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: moovova

And what is all of this “additional security” really for?

The domestic terrorist attacks we have seen all come from known wolf agents. Some have even previously been reported to the authorities by friends, family, and coworkers.

This isn’t to “uncover” issues of domestic security.


14 posted on 02/07/2018 6:06:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: Professional

And it’s American tech companies that provide the equipment for China to spy and control their people.

Who told you? Do you know what software is on the ‘phone’? Do you know the origin of the software?

The Chinese are perfectly capable of writing their own code - after all they now have quantum computers with unbreakable and un-interceptable signals - something the West, at least publicly, does not have. The Chinese also have the world’s fastest super computer.


15 posted on 02/07/2018 6:07:35 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Way to go Google... You’re idea finds great favor with the State.


16 posted on 02/07/2018 6:08:17 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: PIF

You must be kidding, it’s hardly a secret.


17 posted on 02/07/2018 6:12:57 AM PST by Professional
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To: freedumb2003
The Terminator had it first. I don't expect the CCP will be any less forgiving than Skynet.


18 posted on 02/07/2018 6:16:32 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: jmcenanly

You now most of the “code” displayed on the Terminator’s internal scree were COBOL source listings? Look closely and pause and you can make out “IDENTIFICATION SECTION”

Man, can you imagine writing code for the Terminator (COBOL 68)?

PERFORM 3000-SHOOT-THE-WEAPON UNTIL EVERYONE-IS-DEAD.

IF HAVE-CONNOR=’Y’ THEN
GOTO 9999-TRANSPORT-BACK-TO-FUTURE
ELSE
GOTO 1000-LOOK-FOR-TARGET.


19 posted on 02/07/2018 6:21:51 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: Professional

So you know what software is on Chinese State Police phones and who wrote the code? Care to share?


20 posted on 02/07/2018 6:45:53 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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