Chinese police are using dark sunglasses equipped with facial recognition technology to spot criminal suspects. The glasses, which are being worn by police at a busy train station ahead of the Chinese New Year travel rush, are linked to a central database which contains details of criminal records.
Wearing the technology, police can almost instantly view an individual's personal details, including name, ethnicity, gender and address.
The scene would not look out of place in an episode of science fiction television drama Black Mirror, which often depicts dark scenarios of humans being overcome by technology.
China is deploying new technologies to monitor people in ways that would unnerve many in the West. more
