Thousands of facial recognition cameras crisscross a neighborhood in Shanghai
Obviously, 1,200 surveillance cameras are not enough to “Ensure the security” of XuHui’s 1.1 million inhabitants. Since May 10, this district in central Shanghai has tripled its video surveillance equipment. There are now 3,700 facial recognition cameras there, if we are to believe the revelation from the American company, IPVM.
After going through hundreds of pages of technical documents from China, this company, headquartered in Pennsylvania and which brings together researchers specializing in video surveillance, was impressed by this “vast expansion of mass surveillance” in the heart of China’s most international megacity.
Located in the center of Shanghai, Xuhui is a highly sensitive place. The consulates of the United States, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden are located alongside Microsoft laboratories. Xihui is also a “rotating plate” for many leading Chinese AI researchers, with offices of Huawei and D’Ali Baba.
50 million faces
In a surveillance camera network maintenance document dated 2021, Xuhui police described this massive network of facial recognition cameras as a means “to fight crime and improve
