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: Chinese officials have used surveillance tools to publicly shame people wearing sleepwear in public, calling it "uncivilized behavior." The punishing of these minor offenses is by design, surveillance experts said. The threat of public humiliation through facial recognition helps Chinese officials direct over a billion people toward what it considers acceptable behavior, from what you wear to how you cross the street. "The idea is that the authorities are trying to put in place comprehensive surveillance and behavioral engineering on a mass scale," said Maya Wang, a senior researcher on China at the Human Rights Watch. " The authorities want to create a kind of society that would be very easy for them to manage." Now playing: Watch this: China turns to tech to monitor, shame, rate citizens
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Behavioral engineering
The idea that China's facial recognition would automatically put your name and photo on a billboard for jaywalking and privately text you a fine instills fear in people to behave a certain way, Wang said. Technology has often had that ability to affect behavior, even outside of China. Behavioral engineering is the concept of combining technology and psychology to nudge people to act a certain way, and it's something we see every day.