freebeacon
Katelyn Caralle
January 8, 2018 1:22 pm
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http://freebeacon.com/issues/china-pursues-new-facial-recognition-program-push-total-surveillance/Facial recognition is China's hottest new technology, but it raises issues concerning personal security as the communist government works to track individuals, create detailed profiles, and assign "social credit" scores.
In China, banks, airports, hotels, and even public toilets are trying to verify people's identities by analyzing their faces, the Washington Post reports.
In addition to the technology's everyday convenience uses, like apartment access, the technology is also being used by police to track and analyze individuals' behaviors. That information could be used to identify, as described in one Chinese police report, the "bad guys."