China eyes ‘black tech’ to boost security as parliament meets


By Pei LiCate Cadell
  • TECH
  • Monday, 12 Mar 2018

A promotion video shows an actor wearing LLVision facial recognition smart glasses during a demonstration at the company's office in Beijing, China February 28, 2018. Picture taken February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

BEIJING: At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features and car registration plates, and match them in real-time with a database of suspects.

The AI-powered glasses, made by LLVision, scan the faces of vehicle occupants and the plates, flagging with a red box and warning sign to the wearer when any match up with a centralised "blacklist".

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