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China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech
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Facial-recognition technologies are proliferating, from airports to bathrooms.

Dystopia starts with 23.6 inches of toilet paper. That’s how much the dispensers at the entrance of the public restrooms at Beijing’s Temple of Heaven dole out in a program involving facial-recognition scanners—part of the president’s “Toilet Revolution,” which seeks to modernize public toilets. Want more? Forget it. If you go back to the scanner before nine minutes are up, it will recognize you and issue this terse refusal: “Please try again later.”

China is rife with face-scanning technology worthy of
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. Don’t even think about jaywalking in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province. Last year, traffic-management authorities there started using facial recognition to crack down. When a camera mounted above one of 50 of the city’s busiest intersections detects a jaywalker, it snaps several photos and records a video of the violation. The photos appear on an overhead screen so the offender can see that he or she has been busted, then are cross-checked with the images in a regional police database. Within 20 minutes, snippets of the perp’s ID number and home address are displayed on the crosswalk screen. The offender can choose among three options: a 20-yuan fine (about $3), a half-hour course in traffic rules, or 20 minutes spent assisting police in controlling traffic. Police have also been known to post names and photos of jaywalkers on social media.

The system seems to be working: Since last May, the number of jaywalking violations at one of Jinan’s major intersections has plummeted from 200 a day to 20. Cities in the provinces of Fujian, Jiangsu, and Guangdong are also using facial-recognition software to catch and shame jaywalkers.

Across the country, other applications of the technology are proliferating. Many exist somewhere in the range between helpful and unsettling: A “smart boarding system” from the tech giant Baidu reduces airport check-in to a one-second face scan; at KFC China’s “smart restaurant” in Beijing, customers stand in front of a screen, have their face scanned (again, Baidu is part of the joint endeavor), and receive menu suggestions based on their age, sex, and facial expression (“crispy chicken hamburger,” roasted chicken wings, and a Coke for a 20-something male’s lunch; porridge and soy milk for a middle-aged woman’s breakfast). A female-only university dormitory has even employed facial recognition to keep nonresidents out.

The technology’s veneer of convenience conceals a dark truth: Quietly and very rapidly, facial recognition has enabled China to become the world’s most advanced surveillance state. A hugely ambitious new government program called the “
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, including everything from bank-account numbers to court records to internet-search histories, for all Chinese citizens. Based on this information, each person could be assigned a numerical score, to which points might be added for good behavior like winning a community award, and deducted for bad actions like failure to pay a traffic fine. The goal of the program, as stated in government documents, is to “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.”

All sorts of data will feed into this new program, but facial recognition (along with gait analysis and voice recognition, also enabled by rapid advances in machine learning and cloud computing) has the potential to one day give it
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. China’s government and commercial sectors make available to each other the endless streams of personal information they gather. Because companies have access to vast amounts of consumer data, industry experts predict that in the coming months Chinese facial-recognition software will become even more accurate. Western companies may be exploiting the same machine-learning technology, but nobody is rolling it out like the Chinese.

According to Maya Wang, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, China’s domestic surveillance is far more advanced than most Chinese citizens realize. “People in China don’t know 99.99 percent of what’s going on in terms of state surveillance,” she says. “Most people think they can say what they want and live freely without being monitored, but that’s largely an illusion.”
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solarz

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China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech
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LOL @article.

Oh no, a $3 fine! What a dystopia!

The US (and Canada) runs a no-fly list based on names. Unfortunately, a lot of people have the same name, resulting in kids being barred from flight because they share the same name with some suspected jihadist. These kids and their families go through incredible harassment at airports and need to spend their own time and money to fight for their right to travel.

Now imagine what could have been accomplished if the no-fly list was based on facial recognition.

As for the social credit system, you can only get rated if you participate. Despite wide fear-mongering by western media, the online activity portion only accounts for 5% of the credit system. Bad credit rating comes from trying to scam other people.
 

taxiya

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So the US (read Trump) really fear of Huawei and ZTE and China in particular :p

The reasons don't make sense at all, I thought combining 2 giant company would make it stronger and also stronger in R & D ..... I don't understand at all

Who would benefit shorting Broadcom and Qualcomm stocks?;)
Combining two giants are preferred, but to Trump and US, it is only preferred if the combined effort remains primarily on US soil. Trump is afraid that Broadcom as a Singaporean company may (very likely) put that R&D effort primarily outside of US (closer to its global markets) while taking patents of Qualcomm. Qualcomm makes its profit more from patent fees than from fabrications.

From US perspective, Trump would rather Qualcomm to die (Qualcomm is still strong for the moment but faces increasing pressures from other vendors) than being used to boost other country's development. Same as Obama blocked Intel's sale of PI chip to China. Very often, as long as national boarder exists, politics run against interests of capital.
 

plawolf

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Combining two giants are preferred, but to Trump and US, it is only preferred if the combined effort remains primarily on US soil. Trump is afraid that Broadcom as a Singaporean company may (very likely) put that R&D effort primarily outside of US (closer to its global markets) while taking patents of Qualcomm. Qualcomm makes its profit more from patent fees than from fabrications.

From US perspective, Trump would rather Qualcomm to die (Qualcomm is still strong for the moment but faces increasing pressures from other vendors) than being used to boost other country's development. Same as Obama blocked Intel's sale of PI chip to China. Very often, as long as national boarder exists, politics run against interests of capital.

If that is his goal, he is being stupidly short sighted. When companies ‘die’ they don’t take any of their worldly belongings with them.

When the liquidators come in to squeeze every last cent they can out of the fresh carcass of a newly dead or dying company, everything of worth gets auctioned off. And you can buy all the parents you want for cents on the dollar compared to buying the company while it is still viable, and investing the capital needed to make it competitive.

The US’ main fear is that China will get into the higher end of its supply chain. Because such live companies don’t just hold patents (which are all the past anyways), but more importantly, they have a fully staffed research and development department, but more importantly, client lists and contacts. It’s a ready made delivery vehicle for China to push their own home grown products and services to the US market. That makes China a stronger competitor, which is the main reason it is doing all it can to try and keep advanced tech out of Chinese reach.

But they cannot say that, so they invoke ‘national security’. It’s not a totally baseless fear since they have been revealed to have been doing exactly what they say they fear China might do - do not disclose, or even purposely built in backdoors; install sleeper programmes that will do nothing unless triggered by specific commands or files on the computer etc.
 

antiterror13

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Combining two giants are preferred, but to Trump and US, it is only preferred if the combined effort remains primarily on US soil. Trump is afraid that Broadcom as a Singaporean company may (very likely) put that R&D effort primarily outside of US (closer to its global markets) while taking patents of Qualcomm. Qualcomm makes its profit more from patent fees than from fabrications.

From US perspective, Trump would rather Qualcomm to die (Qualcomm is still strong for the moment but faces increasing pressures from other vendors) than being used to boost other country's development. Same as Obama blocked Intel's sale of PI chip to China. Very often, as long as national boarder exists, politics run against interests of capital.

I thought Broadcom was American company? are you sure it is Singaporean company?
 

manqiangrexue

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LOL @article.

Oh no, a $3 fine! What a dystopia!

The US (and Canada) runs a no-fly list based on names. Unfortunately, a lot of people have the same name, resulting in kids being barred from flight because they share the same name with some suspected jihadist. These kids and their families go through incredible harassment at airports and need to spend their own time and money to fight for their right to travel.

Now imagine what could have been accomplished if the no-fly list was based on facial recognition.

As for the social credit system, you can only get rated if you participate. Despite wide fear-mongering by western media, the online activity portion only accounts for 5% of the credit system. Bad credit rating comes from trying to scam other people.
They have a serial bomber who dropped off 5 bombs in Austin and the police have no way to find him so they are reduced to reaching out to the criminal and asking why he's doing this, and they criticize China for using criminal tracking technology?? If it was in China, he would have dropped off the first bomb and went home to a warm welcome by the police holding his deactivate bomb in a plastic bag LOL
 
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