Forensics

I Spy: Beijing Developing Biometric Technology to Identify 1.3B Faces

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security has partnered with a Shanghai-based security company on a project to accurately detect the identities of the nation’s 1.3 billion citizens with facial recognition software, the South China Morning Post reports.

Ivision, the contractor winner, actually won rights to work on the project in 2016 but only confirmed the news to SCMP this week. A spokesperson for the company refused to tell the Post more details about the project's progress, which is confidential. Beyond confirming that the firm had won the contract, a company spokesman said "we have no information for public disclosure."