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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...
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... More...
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