'Facials' for everybody at Osaka station

[Taro Toporific]

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Facial ID tech to be set at Osaka station
The Yomiuri Shimbun | January 30, 2014
...The station, which serves 820,000 passengers per day, is scheduled to be the stage of an unusually large study on tracking location data using facial-recognition technology...
...Each camera is to photograph people’s faces within a three-square-meter area, and assign each face an ID based on its characteristics.
When a person is recognized by another camera, the time and location will be recorded. Each person’s behavior will then be tracked for one week...more...

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[Russell]

Expect more people to wear facial masks at Osaka Station...

[Taro Toporific]

Government tech lab shelves launch of video tracking at JR Osaka
Japan Times (KYODO) March 12, 2014
OSAKA – A government technology laboratory said Tuesday it has delayed the launch of a video-tracking program to monitor passers-by at a major train station --- originally scheduled to begin in April -- due to “voices of concern” raised by citizens...
...The institute said it would process the video data on people in such a way as to make it impossible to identify individuals, but a civic group voiced opposition, citing privacy concerns...
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