Facial recognition technology is widely used by the Chinese Communist Party in everyday Life, and people are forced to use it without any choice. According to a new poll, more than 90 percent of the public fears that their personal information will be leaked, and some mainland human rights activists say that the Chinese Communist Party’s facial recognition technology is turning the Chinese people into “transparent people.
According to Voice of America, a recent anonymous poll released by the Xinjing think tank with more than 1,500 participants showed that 87.46 percent of respondents opposed the use of face recognition technology in commercial areas, 68.64 percent said the technology should not be used to enter and exit residential areas, and 43 percent did not want it used in hospitals, schools and offices. The poll results also showed that 96.14% of respondents were worried that personal information would be leaked, and 51.4% said they were forced to use face recognition technology without any choice.
Mr. Lin of Wuhan told the Voice of America, “Every Time I go out to a scenic spot, there are those kinds of machines that appear – face recognition machines. Is it necessary? It’s very useful for criminals and a little bit inappropriate for the privacy aspect of ordinary citizens.”
Shanghai Mr. Li said, now is the park also engaged in face recognition, do not let just go in; using face recognition of the mall, the management also do not let you go in. In addition, technology network platform, Internet finance, face recognition technology is abused will be more terrible, this is a problem involving financial security.
In addition, the media group “First Finance” in 2020 in the “public research report on face recognition application” proposed that more than 90% of the respondents have used face recognition, 60% of people think that this technology has a tendency to abuse, 30% of people said that they suffered losses because face information was leaked and misused, and some people have been Some people have also been misrepresented because their faces are similar.
According to the mainland media, some public restrooms have installed cameras to prevent people from stealing toilet paper for face recognition. A photo circulating online shows a man wearing a steel helmet angrily smashing surveillance cameras in protest. In addition, biometric machines to clock in and out of work have become a way of life for many office workers, and there is no alternative to
According to the report, face recognition technology has come to a “crossroads”, from the brush face to enter the community triggered resistance, to the tourists sued the zoo without consent to collect facial information, and then to the sales office there are customers wearing helmets to see the house, 94-year-old man was forced to pick up to do face recognition, a series of events into the whirlpool of public opinion.
According to the latest statistics from the U.S. technology research website Comparitech, China accounts for 18 of the 20 cities in the world that are closely monitored by cameras, making it the most closely monitored country, while data protection is at the bottom of the list.
The Communist Party’s official media, People’s Daily, has claimed on its English-language Twitter account that China is able to scan the country’s 1.4 billion faces once in a second.
Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia said the misuse of facial recognition technology is closely linked to government actions. In places such as Shenzhen and Shenyang, once a red-light runner enters the camera area, his or her image, name, ID number and other personal information immediately appear on electronic billboards in the street, a “public display” process so fast that it is initiated and completed before the red-light runner even reaches the opposite side of the road.
Hu Jia said: “Now because of the impact of the Epidemic, China has developed new products in the last year as a matter of urgency. With a mask, with a hat, the authorities are also immediately able to know who you are, as long as you show your eyes, the eye in that point in the face recognition system can determine, the accuracy rate is said to be more than 85%, and now there is more than face recognition technology, there is gait recognition, that is, you wrap yourself up, walking posture can be recognized.”
Hu Jia said that under the impetus of official surveillance needs, scientific research institutions and enterprises are competing fiercely with each other to gradually improve the level of face recognition systems, thus satisfying both official needs and stimulating the process of civilianization and popularization of this technology.
A backlash against face recognition is building up among the Chinese public. Hu Jia said, when you are concerned about your privacy, you will find that face recognition technology has turned you into a ‘transparent person’ without your authorization, without your permission, without having participated in any exploration. In this country, you will find that Big Brother is watching you at all times, and he knows everything.”
Mr. Li from Shanghai mentioned, “Private security guards, mall security guards, community security guards, park security guards, what kind of quality are they? They are some very mobile, cultural knowledge is very weak, no basic quality of people, including the quality of their managers, this flood of information is not good, too terrible, I am strongly opposed to the attitude.” .
Internet freedom watcher Gu He said in an interview that the widespread use of face recognition technology in mainland China is not operating as a technology for the benefit of the people, it is serving the totalitarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party. It thinks that the face cannot be changed wherever you go, and through face recognition, it thinks that no matter how much you hide, the probability is that you can know who you are, which is very helpful for its totalitarian rule.
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