Formosan police say they used facial recognition to key out , then stop a man pay heed a crowded concert in Nanchang , China ’s third largest city . South China Morning Post reportsthat security department camera equipped with the computer software pinpointed the man out of the estimated 50,000 other people also in attendance at the concert .
Identified only by his last name , Ao , the 31 - year - old was reportedly attend a show by Hong Kong adept Jacky Cheung with his married woman and friends last workweek . Law enforcement approached him soon after the concert started . Police said he was wanted in connection to an “ economic law-breaking . ”
In China , face identification is beingused in caravan stationsto find human traffickers , in airports as passengers get on domestic and international flights , and , soon , perhaps evenon street cornersto deter jaywalking . While a purport blessing to public safety , privacy expert have long rally against typeface recognition in public situation because simply being in the space means being matched against criminal databases and other watch lists .
Face matching is both instantaneous and unseeable , making its potential abuses specially insidious . Journalists and protestorscan be targetedby the same technology as easily as any fugitive , and China has been incriminate of using fount recognition tosurveil its Muslim pagan minority . As it move to empower its AI to look out most of its population of two billion the great unwashed , China ’s ultimate goal is to see to it no one ’s just a face in the crowd .
[ South China Morning Post&ECNS ]
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