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Hong Kong to install surveillance cameras with AI facial recognition (www.france24.com)

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The Chinese finance hub has already installed almost 4,000 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras under a police crime-fighting programme. That number will increase to a total of 60,000 by 2028, according to documents submitted to the legislature.

Artificial intelligence is being used to monitor crowds and read licence plates, and that technology "will naturally be applied to people, such as tracking a criminal suspect", Hong Kong's security chief Chris Tang told lawmakers.

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[–] tomiant@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

This is so fucking dark. Every one of those dystopian scenarios we were warned about for decades is playing out before our eyes. The only positive thing is that we can at least look forward to the total global collapse coming in the not too distant future.