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

Content: China's facial recognition system logs nearly every single citizen in the country, with a vast network of cameras across the country. A database leak in 2019 gave a glimpse of how pervasive China's surveillance tools are -- with more than 6.8 million records from a single day, taken from cameras positioned around hotels, parks, tourism spots and mosques, logging details on people as young as 9 days old . Stay tuned
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