China Public Security Expo: Emotion Detection a Hot Surveillance Trend
November 4, 2019
DarkCyber loves hot trends, particularly when the technology is not particularly reliable. The idea is that smart software looks at one’s image and decides if the image is suggestive of a bad actor or a person of interest.
We noted a Boing Boing article called “Report from a Massive Chinese Surveillance Tech Expo, Where Junk-Science Emotion Recognition Rules.” That write up pointed to a series of tweets with pictures posted by Sue-Lin Wong, a journalist.
You can find the tweets and images of the event at this link.
Some of the assertions and factoids I noted in the tweets include:
- China is using emotion detection in some surveillance systems at this time
- Facial recognition developers are starting to bump into outfits like Huawei, which are poking around the technology which might fit nicely into some Huawei systems
- Emotion detection has many applications, schools, dormitories, data mining, health care
- Smart prisons and smart beds are getting attention
- Unclassified miniature cameras were exhibited; for example, glasses with a camera in the nose piece frame.
DarkCyber does not think it will be productive to call an agent of the government wearing spy glasses a glasshole.
Stephen E Arnold, November 3, 2019
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