Facializing: World Behaviour and Social Control... Deployed and Coming To You ASAP

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-all-seeing-surveillance-state-feared-in-the-west-is-a-reality-in-china-1498493020
https://www.axios.com/chinas-big-brother-reality-2448660234.html
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/11/30/1527257/china-pilots-a-system-that-rates-citizens-on-social-credit-score-to-determine-eligibility-for-jobs-travel

China's government is using facial-recognition technology to help
promote good behavior and catch lawbreakers, reports the WSJ. From the
article: Facial-recognition technology, once a specter of dystopian
science fiction, is becoming a feature of daily life in China, where
authorities are using it on streets, in subway stations, at airports
and at border crossings in a vast experiment in social engineering
(alternative source). Their goal: to influence behavior and identify
lawbreakers. Ms. Gan, 31 years old, had been caught on camera crossing
illegally here once before, allowing the system to match her two
images. Text displayed on the crosswalk screens identified her as a
repeat offender. "I won't ever run a red light again," she said. China
is rushing to deploy new technologies to monitor its people in ways
that would spook many in the U.S. and the West. Unfettered by privacy
concerns or public debate, Beijing's authoritarian leaders are
installing iris scanners at security checkpoints in troubled regions
and using sophisticated software to monitor ramblings on social media.
By 2020, the government hopes to implement a national "social credit"
system that would assign every citizen a rating based on how they
behave at work, in public venues and in their financial dealings.