How China Tracks Everyone

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Published 2019-12-23
VICE's Elle Reeve heads to China to investigate the rise of facial recognition technology — and what that means for all of us.

This report originally aired April 13, 2018, on VICE on HBO.

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All Comments (21)
  • @HazyJ28
    HUMANITY NEEDS TO REALIZE THAT WHEN YOU GIVE UP PRIVACY FOR SECURITY, YOU END UP WITH NEITHER.
  • @CptUhudini
    I’m 100% convinced that the guy from the company lied when he said he isn’t worried about privacy. He was too scared to say something, he would have lost is job
  • @Keltrexxx
    When art imitates life, it’s beautiful When life imitates art, it’s just plain scary
  • @SaudiHaramco
    "we're building a giant satelite which we call the 'death star.' it's inspired by star wars, but we want to use it to do good."
  • @dannyzero692
    You know naming a smart surveillance system "Skynet" doesn't fair too well.
  • @Lousy_Bastard
    The western world is heading the same way just a bit slower and also done covertly.
  • @h3rres
    i don’t like this episode of black mirror
  • @devashish_
    When your FBI agent is being watched by his Chinese Agent
  • @sergioinnit
    china tracks its citizens every government in the world: sweating in the distance
  • @saikikusuo1789
    This is soo creepy. They literally are bringing into life those sci-fi movies.
  • @maartendj2724
    Sci-fi movie writers: Let's warn the public about the dark sides of technology. Chinese viewers: Very inspiring content, thank you!
  • @leonardouau
    Guys, stop using "well but the people don't complain about the system" as an argument, there's obvious reasons to why they don't complain
  • @RLee-oz6gl
    What worries me even more is that this system will definitely get abused with faked people and false evidence. An ai can fake someone's actions and cause that to become "proof" of a crime.
  • @chrispenney
    "So what does the future of this technology look like?" "An episode of black mirror." "But that is a horror show!" "Yeah..... haha."
  • @Fishfingers232
    It's scary, that guy's seen black mirror so it's not like he's ignorant, but has taken completely the wrong message from it.
  • This system have many flaws. My experience. I was purposely bump by people, and when I push her back, I was accuse by the screen who record me pushing the person, and was accuse of starting a fight meaning I was seen as posing a criminal act to another person. In reality this kind of surveillance camera can heavily wrong an innocent person and violating public privacy
  • @lmontoyad
    We already fell in the trap. Facebook and Google give us some kind of reward (free services) in exchange for an enormous amount of data free of cost for them. We would have to be naive to assume that governments would allow this companies to collect that kind of information and grow as much as they have without getting involved.