A new Chinese-made camera has 4 times the resolution of the human eye and can individually identify people in a crowd of tens of thousands. Its development is of concern to civil libertarians and others worried about how this supercam can feed vast amounts of data into China’s burgeoning social credit system.
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China unveils 500 megapixel camera that can identify every face in a crowd of tens of thousands
Pick your nose in a crowd of 10,000 and this 500-megapixel camera will know
China’s new ‘super camera’ can instantly pinpoint specific targets among tens of thousands of people