One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority
By: New York Times April 14, 2019 The Chinese government has drawn wide international condemnation for its harsh crackdown on ethnic Muslims in its western region, including holding as many as a million of them in detention camps. Now, documents and interviews show that the authorities are also using a vast, secret system of advanced […]
Are you being scanned? How facial recognition technology follows you, even as you shop
By: Eden Gillespie February 24, 2019 As digital billboards record customers’ reactions to advertisements tailored to them, just who is safeguarding Australians’ privacy? According to experts, FRT is now more accurate than humans at identifying faces. Photograph: Jochen Tack/Alamy If you shop at Westfield, you’ve probably been scanned and recorded by dozens of hidden cameras […]