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Surveillance State

Pekingology

CHAPTER

Facial Recognition - What Is It All About?

Andias: I think it was two things, t sort of two factors drew me to the surveillance topic. In a facial recognition start o essentially being supported by these large government contracts that had come about because the chinese government had thought about using facial recognition in public safety use. Andias: It just felt literally like stepping into a adistopian nightmare, right? It was just security check points everywhere, facial scanning anywhere you went.

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