Cameras at Qingdao event identify 25 suspects in under one second, including a man who had been on the run for 10 yearsChinese police have used facial recognition technology to catch criminals at a beer festival. Beer drinkers are just the latest targets of facial recognition in China, where the hardware has been installed at road junctions in four cities to identify and shame pedestrians who ignore traffic regulations. Facial recognition is also being used by KFC to predict customers’ orders, as China embraces the technology for everything from toilet paper to travel. China is racing ahead in its use of facial recognition technology, despite widespread concerns about its impact on privacy and civil liberties. In the UK, police used facial recognition software to scan the faces of tens of thousands of revellers at this year’s Notting Hill carnival even though civil liberties groups believed such action would be discriminatory.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2017 11:37 UTC