In São Paulo, ‘Big Brother’ is watching, with 25,000 cameras and facial recognition technology

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In São Paulo, ‘Big Brother’ is watching, with 25,000 cameras and facial recognition technology

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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days ago

Using artificial intelligence, a vast municipal video surveillance network scans the faces of passersby day and night, hunting for fugitives and criminals

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