{"id":31236,"date":"2018-01-08T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31236"},"modified":"2018-01-08T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:52:54","slug":"wapo-beijing-bets-on-facial-recognition-in-a-big-drive-for-total-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31236","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/world\/wp\/2018\/01\/07\/feature\/in-china-facial-recognition-is-sharp-end-of-a-drive-for-total-surveillance\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_chinafacial-740pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.a1cc983b59d7\">Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance<\/a> by Simon Denyer. Referring to &#8220;the security state&#8221;:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For 40-year-old Mao Ya, the facial recognition camera that allows access to her apartment house is simply a useful convenience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I am carrying shopping bags in both hands, I just have to look ahead and the door swings open,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd my 5-year-old daughter can just look up at the camera and get in. It\u2019s good for kids because they often lose their keys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for the police, the cameras that replaced the residents\u2019 old entry cards serve quite a different purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Now they can see who\u2019s coming and going, and by combining artificial intelligence with a huge national bank of photos, the system in this pilot project should enable police to identify what one police report, shared with The Washington Post, called the \u201cbad guys\u201d who once might have slipped by.<\/p>\n<p>Facial recognition is the new hot tech topic in China. Banks, airports, hotels and even public toilets are all trying to verify people\u2019s identities by analyzing their faces. But the police and security state have been the most enthusiastic about embracing this new technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance by Simon Denyer. Referring to &#8220;the security state&#8221;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31237,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236\/revisions\/31237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}