For crew overnighting in Beijing this year, its been mandatory to have your photo and finger prints taken. The facial photo will no doubt go straight onto the central government’s facial recognition database.
it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that HK Police are
taking huge amounts of 4K video and HD photos of demonstrators, wether they are engaged in peaceful protest or otherwise.
It will only be a matter of time, if not already the case, that these images will find themselves on the china national image database, allowing anyone who has been photographed to be potentially pulled out and questioned based on facial recognition software matches.
Yesterdays announcement indicates that HK crew will receive extra scrutiny when entering china.
Where will it end? If a crew member is watching a peaceful protest in Wanch Chai amble past the coffee shop they are sitting outside of, it’s conceivable they could be photographed and that image finds itself onto the central data base. Happy times.