Chinese police are using facial recognition sunglasses to track citizens
China’s police have a new weapon in their surveillance arsenal: sunglasses with built-in facial recognition. According to reports from local media, the glasses are being tested at train stations in the “emerging megacity” of Zhengzhou, where they’ll be used to scan travelers during the upcoming Lunar New Year migration. This a period of extremely busy holiday travel, often described as the largest annual human migration event on Earth, and the police say the sunglasses have already been used to capture seven suspects wanted in major cases, and 26 other individuals traveling under false identities.
The sunglasses are yet another component in China’s burgeoning tech-surveillance state. In recent years, the country has poured resources…
