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Facial recognition is increasingly used around the world. In countries like China or Iran, it is a ruthless repressive tool. In France, the authorities are becoming more and more interested in it.
Paying for purchases by simply showing your face is currently being tested in a Japanese Yahoo! brand store. “We expect that this will allow us to renew our customers, and that it will facilitate in-store operations.“, specifies Yoshioka Tomohiko, of Yahoo! Japan. In other countries, such as China, facial recognition has become commonplace.
France is closely interested in it
The state uses this technology to identify people on the street and scrutinize their actions. Some find themselves on a blacklist and see their faces plastered, for example for not having paid for their cinema tickets. More recently, in Iran, an artificial intelligence appears as a scarecrow in a clip broadcast by the regime, with the aim of pushing women to respect the obligation to wear the veil. “We know who you are“, we can read. In France, devices have been tested occasionally, and the technique is of increasing interest to the authorities.