{"id":731,"date":"2021-03-03T06:32:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/smile-for-the-camera-dark-side-of-chinas-emotion-recognition-tech\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T06:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:32:21","slug":"smile-for-the-camera-dark-side-of-chinas-emotion-recognition-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/smile-for-the-camera-dark-side-of-chinas-emotion-recognition-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile for the camera: dark side of China&#8217;s emotion-recognition tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping wants \u2018positive energy\u2019 but critics say the surveillance tools\u2019 racial bias and monitoring for anger or sadness should be banned<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary people here in China aren\u2019t happy about this technology but they have no choice. If the police say there have to be cameras in a community, people will just have to live with it. There\u2019s always that demand and we\u2019re here to fulfil it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So says Chen Wei at Taigusys, a company specialising in emotion recognition technology, the latest evolution in the broader world of surveillance systems that play a part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/china-brings-in-mandatory-facial-recognition-for-mobile-phone-users\">nearly every aspect of Chinese society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/03\/china-positive-energy-emotion-surveillance-recognition-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2122dd8cda613561a8471a36e780c899203d1892\/24_499_4492_2695\/master\/4492.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ddb48d6e16031caffbf7e96abe60610c\" title=\"Smile for the camera: dark side of China's emotion-recognition tech\" \/>Xi Jinping wants \u2018positive energy\u2019 but critics say the surveillance tools\u2019 racial bias and monitoring for anger or sadness should be banned<br \/>\n\u201cOrdinary people here in China aren\u2019t happy about this technology but they have no choice. If the police say there have to be cameras in a community, people will just have to live with it. There\u2019s always that demand and we\u2019re here to fulfil it.\u201d<br \/>\nSo says Chen Wei at Taigusys, a company specialising in emotion recognition technology, the latest evolution in the broader world of surveillance systems that play a part in nearly every aspect of Chinese society. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping wants \u2018positive energy\u2019 but critics say the surveillance tools\u2019 racial bias and monitoring for anger or sadness should be banned \u201cOrdinary people here in China aren\u2019t happy about this technology but they have no choice. If the police say there have to be cameras in a community, people will just have to live &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/smile-for-the-camera-dark-side-of-chinas-emotion-recognition-tech\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smile for the camera: dark side of China&#8217;s emotion-recognition tech<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}