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China: Opportunistic elites started detecting potential criminals
  • Cloud Walk, headquartered in Guangzhou, conducts machine learning of facial recognition systems and analysis and evaluation of big data to track the risk level of potential criminals. Those who frequent gun shops or frequent transportation hubs are more likely to be flagged by the system. According to the newspaper, even visitors to hardware stores may fall under "suspicion", because these places are considered by the authorities as "high risk" zones.

    "Of course, if someone buys a kitchen knife, then there is nothing criminal. But if the same person buys a bag and a hammer, he will become suspicious for the system," said a representative of Cloud Walk in a conversation with the Financial Times.

    The Cloud Walk software is reportedly already networked with a police database of more than 50 cities and provinces and can tag suspicious individuals in real time. The country also already has a system of "personal re-identification" used as a crime prevention measure: the system is capable of identifying people in different places, even if they wear different clothes.

    "We can use the re-ID system to search for suspicious people wandering back and forth in the same area or wearing masks" (...) With the help of re-ID it is also possible to trace the path of a person moving over a large area, "commented the Financial Times, Lien Biao, professor of figurative recognition at Beijing Aviation and Astronautics University.

    As Culture second revolution will happen they again will tell that they are innocent lambs and people are wrong doing bad things to them.