Hong Kong to Start AI Facial Recognition This Month
Hong Kong will introduce AI-based facial recognition starting this month, according to a news report. The headline gives few details about how the system will be used, who will run it, or what safeguards will apply. Facial recognition uses cameras to identify people, so it can affect anyone who passes them.
Quick glossaryHong Kong, facial recognition, AI
- Hong Kong
- A special region of China with its own government, known as a major global finance and trade hub.
- facial recognition
- A technology that identifies people by matching the shape of their face against images in a database.
- AI
- Artificial intelligence, a computer system that learns patterns from data to perform tasks such as recognising images or language.
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