Title: How China uses facial recognition to control human behavior - CNET
Headings: How China uses facial recognition to control human behavior
How China uses facial recognition to control human behavior
When facial recognition is everywhere, anything you do is fair game for public shaming and punishment.
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How China uses facial recognition to shame and control its population (The Daily Charge, 8/11/2020)
Behavioral engineering
China's model of using facial recognition is a warning for the rest of the world
China's track record
Recognizing influence

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In China, surveillance technology is used to monitor, control, and shame its citizens. China's track record
In China, no one is safe from facial recognition, or the public shaming that comes with it. Cameras set up at crosswalks to identify and post photos of jaywalkers are commonplace, and a report from Abacus in May 2019 showed photos of children jaywalking on a digital billboard. The local traffic police said "children should be treated the same as adults," according to the outlet. A Chinese park has also relied on facial recognition to prevent people from taking too much toilet paper, scanning people's faces before dispensing out the rolls. "It's kind of an 'anything goes' system there, no matter how minor," the Constitution Project's Laperruque said. " Any sort of offense goes for this kind of tech." And while in the US, facial recognition is going through a reckoning over its racial bias and human rights concerns, in China, the surveillance technology's providers boast its abilities to single out people of different ethnicities. "There's no allowed space at all, both online and offline, to discuss racial bias and the persecution of minorities in China."