China use facial Recognition technology base surveillance

From many year we are watch facial recognition technology in science fiction movies but in china this is part of every day life. Attendance in offices/schools, money transaction from ATM also supports this technology.

In China when any citizen reaches at the age of 18 and want to make national identity card government take the photo and maintain it in the database with latest pic from any devices e.g: social media, CCTV cameras, mobile phone, laptop......
this database help government to search any person with in few minutes. Criminal people take this technology as a serious treat for them self.

Even Chinese government decide to install 450 million new CCTV cameras to increase its coverage and surveillance capabilities.

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