Recently China captured a fugitive when he was sending friends to board a plane, 4 images with 98% similarity captured by the airport's cameras.<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3007827/chinese-student-wanted-killing-mother-captured-after-three-years" rel="nofollow">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3007827/chin...</a>
Surely this is one of those technological advances where on reviewing the 'should we' it becomes clear the negatives far outweigh the positives and it is stopped... Surely.<p>Reminds me of a radio interview I heard this morning from a mining CEO awaiting environmental sign-off for a new mine: equipment and resources ready to get going with a couple of days notice. Not even a matter of if, but when.
from the article:
“The security researcher passed details of the database to TechCrunch in an effort to get the data secured”<p>How is the data more secured by sending it to a news agency? Can someone explain? IMHO it’s the exact opposite, data is getting more eyeballs now, right?
> The system also uses its facial recognition systems to detect ethnicities and labels them — such as “汉族” for Han Chinese, the main ethnic group of China — and also “维族” — or Uyghur Muslims, an ethnic minority under persecution by Beijing.<p>I'm getting some strong ww2 death camp vibes from this...