CHINA-INTERNAL: POLICE HAS NEW FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY
The Wall Street Journal on February 7, 2018 reported that Beijing police are using a new addition to their crowd-surveillance toolbox: mobile facial-recognition units mounted on eyeglasses. The mobile devices could expand the reach of surveillance, allowing authorities to peer into places that fixed cameras aren’t scanning, and to respond more quickly. The devices were released late last year. The People's Daily reported on February 6 that the eyeglass-mounted camera is equipped with facial-recognition technology capable of “highly effective screening” of crowds for fugitives travelling under false pretences and that it was already being used by policemen at a railway station in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province. Beijing-based LLVision Technology Co. worked with police departments in Henan, Shandong and Xinjiang for a year to develop the devices, according to LLVision Chief Executive Wu Fei.
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