Facialized: Face Now Required to get Internet, Will Feed Into SocialScore, Rat Out Anons

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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-citizens-will-be-required-scan-their-faces-use-internet
https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-launches-new-rule-residents-must-pass-facial-recognition-test-to-surf-internet_3099181.html

Upgraded subject to include all internet access.
This is coming to your Fake Freedom USA very soon.
Just as SocialScore, and everything else.
Once you let anything (govts) happen anywhere,
it becomes a MeToo (by govts) everywhere.


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    First, all telecom carriers must use facial recognition to test
whether an applicant who applies for internet connection is the owner
of the ID that they use since Dec. 1. At the same time, the carriers
must test that the ID is genuine and valid.
    Second, all telecom carriers must upgrade their service’s terms
and conditions and notify all their customers that they are not
allowed to transfer or resell their cell phone SIM card to another
person by the end of November 2019.
    Third, telecom carriers should help their customers to check
whether there are cell phone or landline numbers that don’t belong to
them but registered under their names since Dec. 1. For unidentified
numbers, the telecom carries must investigate and close the lines
immediately.
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https://psmag.com/news/the-government-internet-id-proposals-pros-and-cons-30448
https://www.activistpost.com/product/0451524934/US/permacultucom-20/



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Chinese Citizens Will Be Required To Scan Their Faces To Use The Internet
10/08/2019

Authored by Aaron Kesel via ActivistPost.com,

The Chinese government continues its Orwellian practices with the
announcement that citizens will have to use facial recognition
technology to access the internet (which is already highly
fire-walled.)

This is all a part of China’s social credit system that will take
effect on Dec. 1st.  After the law is in effect, Chinese citizens who
want to have the internet installed at their houses or on their
smartphones will be required to undergo a facial recognition process
by Chinese authority to prove their identities, according to the new
regulation.

This is significant because now the Chinese government will use the
internet to rate citizens based on their daily behavior online.

Since 2015, Chinese citizens have been required to show their ID cards
while applying for a landline or the internet. This new law is put in
place to verify that the ID belongs to the person applying for
services.

The new law was published on the Chinese Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology (MIIT) website and distributed to all Chinese
telecom carriers on Sept. 27th, which includes three demands be met,
Epoch Times reports.

    First, all telecom carriers must use facial recognition to test
whether an applicant who applies for internet connection is the owner
of the ID that they use since Dec. 1. At the same time, the carriers
must test that the ID is genuine and valid.

    Second, all telecom carriers must upgrade their service’s terms
and conditions and notify all their customers that they are not
allowed to transfer or resell their cell phone SIM card to another
person by the end of November 2019.

    Third, telecom carriers should help their customers to check
whether there are cell phone or landline numbers that don’t belong to
them but registered under their names since Dec. 1. For unidentified
numbers, the telecom carries must investigate and close the lines
immediately.

This comes on the heels of another Chinese pilot program which allows
citizens to pay for subway/train travel using just their facial
biometrics as Activist Post reported. This new system also compensates
elderly Chinese in the city of Shenzhen, China, with a free ride — if
they pay with their face  — providing incentives for using facial
recognition technology.

China is planning to merge its 170+ million security cameras with
artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to create a
mega-surveillance state. This compounds with China’s “social credit
system” that ranks citizens based on their behavior, and rewards or
punishes depending on those scores.

According to the latest report of U.S.-based market research firm IDC,
China had spent $10.6 billion on video surveillance equipment in 2018.
The firm adds that China’s spending is believed to reach $20.1 billion
in 2023. A massive 64.3 percent of China’s spending in 2018 was spent
solely for surveillance cameras. A worrying figure for the future of
China.

IDC reported on Jan. 30th that it predicted China would have 2.76
billion surveillance cameras installed in 2022.

Already, China’s cities, classrooms and even restrooms are inundated
with facial recognition technology. Inside classrooms, facial
recognition technology monitors students and reports their actions to
the teachers and parents. While to access the basic need of using
toilet paper in a public bathroom China requires citizens to scan
their face just to wipe their butt.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Chinese scientists have recently developed
an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled 500 megapixel cloud camera
that’s capable of panoramic capture of an entire stadium with the
ability to target a single individual in an instant, Global Times
reported.

The upgrade to facial recognition technology is developed by
Shanghai-based Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics,
Fine Mechanics and Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in
Changchun, capital of Northeast China’s Jilin Province.

Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics aren’t the first
researchers to advance facial recognition. There is also
Shanghai-based YITU Technology which has evolved the facial
recognition industry by being able to identify a person within a
matter of seconds from a database of people, even if only their
partial face is visible, CNBC reported.

The evolution of facial recognition technology is further documented
by researchers at the University of Bradford have found that “facial
recognition technology works even when only half a face is visible,”
according to EurekAlert.

China is quickly becoming Orwell’s worst nightmare, advancing its
requirement and use of facial recognition technology. In protests,
Hong Kong activists have begun shining laser pointers at facial
recognition cameras to disrupt their function. Protesters have also
taken additional measures, like spray painting camera lenses on the
street or around government offices as Activist Post has reported.

This latest crackdown now requiring internet users in China to
register their faces if they want to use the service is a huge step in
creating a dystopian society. The remaining obvious question is how
long until this type of facial ID requirement spreads to the U.S. and
EU? We do know that the U.S. has wanted an “Internet ID Act” for quite
some time, according to Amie Stepanovich, national security counsel
for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. The fact
that this process could now include facial recognition thanks to China
rolling it out first is a horrifying nightmarish thought — welcome to
1984.
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