China's 170 million surveillance camera system can find BBC correspondents in just 7 minutes

The 170 million camera system incorporates face recognition technology and artificial intelligence that are embedded across China. And to check the speed and accuracy of this surveillance camera system, people asked Guiyang city police in southern China to use this dense surveillance network to find the reporter John Sudworth from BBC in the city 4 million people.

The camera system with advanced face recognition technology and artificial intelligence has surprised many people when it took only 7 minutes to find a BBC correspondent in that crowded city. Don't believe it, watch the video below to know.

China is the country with the largest surveillance system in the world. Some cameras using this artificial intelligence can read faces, others can estimate age, ethnicity and gender. Thanks to this system, police can match every face with an identification card and keep track of their activities one week before that time. With a dense number of cameras, they can check to see if a person meets someone.

In the next 3 years, China plans to install another 400 million cameras to monitor people more carefully. Through the dense surveillance camera system, the security department will know what a person does, every action a person can have during the day, the individuals that a person meets. Even their ambition is to predict in advance, prevent and promptly handle illegal acts that may occur through this system.

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