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Beijing police are using facial-recognition glasses to identify car passengers and number plates

EUTERS/Thomas Peter Beijing police began testing facial-recognition glasses last week. They appear to be similar to those first used by police in a Henan railway station last month. China is drastically increasing its facial recognition technology, and hopes to eventually be able to identify any citizen within three seconds. The highly-policed region of Xinjiang serves as a warning to the rest of the country about potential surveillance measures to come. Police on the outskirts of Beijing are using facial-recognition glasses that can identify passengers and car number plates within milliseconds. The smart glasses were first tested in Beijing at a highway checkpoint last week, according to Reuters.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Harvard professor Steven Pinker explains the disturbing truth behind Trump's two favorite phrasesSee Also:A former Chinese state prosecutor criticized Xi Jinping's plan to rule indefinitely and now he's been arrestedChina's debt-trap diplomacy reaches the Philippines, which is likely to accept Chinese loans 1,100% more expensive than other optionsChina is threatening to fire back at the US in Trump's new trade warSEE ALSO: 22 eerie photos show how China uses facial recognition to track its citizens as they travel, shop — and even use toilet paper

 

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