> "Cameras are set in China at 2.8 meters above the ground. That means they won't be able to capture human faces. That's a rule.<p>I'm confused.
> The man, who authorities identified only by his surname, Yu, is accused of having stolen around $17,000 worth of potatoes in 2015.<p>That's a lot of potatoes to move!
Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold. I think about it like ad-blocking, something that may work itself into the mainstream despite it's questionable ethics.
And yet: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44089161" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44089161</a> -- did they maybe get lucky?<p>I tend to believe there's still issues with the technology and/or data in/data out issues (unless, for example, the Chinese have REALLY good photos of people to start with -- that's the excuse the British police gave in the above story for the 91 percent false positive rate).
10 years from now frontpage HN: "Thanks to cameras placed in every room of every Chinese house, 10,000 people have been saved from otherwise being abused, kidnapped, raped or trafficked this month alone!"<p>Yay!
Direct access to the text only version: <a href="https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613692526" rel="nofollow">https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613692526</a><p>Thanks to GDPR, I can now acess a page with what I want to read way faster than before!
$17k potato heist. AI-Powered Facial Recognition. The "Michael Jackson" of China. I can't help but think of how cool it would be if Michael Mann put together an updated Chinese remake of "HEAT".
Many forms of privacy will disappear but these are all modern creations anyway. Think of how a small tribe use to behave. Was there anything that was private in a small community? Would a criminal also too be instantly spotted in the local lodge as the bard plays his tunes?
Anyone have thoughts on how the public will feel about this kind of tech being applied to the streets of the U.S.? We seem to be so libertarian, yet it seems like other countries (and even law enforcement currently in the US) have been implementing it with little concern of public opinion and/or public outcry.