Chinese Police Are Using Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify and Catch Suspects

In what seems similar a sci-fi movie scene, officials of Chinese police accept been found to exist wearing loftier-tech glasses to grab suspects using facial recognition technology. According to the report, the smart glasses are using the smart facial ID system to pinpoint suspects in real time.

We have already seen Chinese tech companies using facial recognition system to run democratic groceries store a reality, but using the engineering for policing purposes is the first instance of its kind not only in China only the whole world. Facial recognition has been the get-to technology in China and is too being used to monitor the movements of minorities in allegedly extremist hotbeds.

The commencement such use of smart-glasses was observed in the metropolis of Zhengzhou where Chinese officers were found to be donning high-tech glasses to place culprits in the crowd of commuters heading dwelling house around the Chinese New year. As information technology is one of the busiest times for the land's transit system, it seems like the perfect time to examination the technology and its efficiency.

And so far, the smart glasses has helped Chinese policemen in catching 7 suspects accused of crimes ranging from hit-and-run to human trafficking. Some other 26 people who were using imitation IDs were as well nabbed as a effect of this engineering as reported by the state-owned People's Daily media.

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According to the report, currently, 4 officers stationed at the entrances to Zhengzhou's due east station are donning the new smart glasses. The glasses have a camera continued to a smartphone-like device that allows the officers to accept mugshots of suspicious individuals and compare them to a database back at headquarters.

The app chop-chop searches the database and churns out relevant information such as doubtable's age, proper name, and address. It also tells the officers if the suspects are wanted for any crimes and are on the run from the law. Naturally, the plan has generated violent opposition from various man-rights agencies just because Cathay's past, the move doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.

Co-ordinate to experts, smart-glasses are just the offset of China'southward programme to employ a country-wide digital surveillance system which uses citizen's biometric data to track their every activity. The rapid development in biometric technologies such as facial recognition which is becoming more and more accurate and cheap with each passing day has immune China to carry out a test run for its aspiration of deploying a total-fledged biometric surveillance system.