Singapore to test facial recognition on street lights

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Singapore to test facial recognition on street lights

Could be rolled out across 110,000 posts.

The Singapore government is planning to pilot technology installed on streetlight posts to help authorities pick out and recognise faces in crowds across the island-state. The plan to install the cameras, which will be linked to facial recognition software, is raising privacy fears among ...

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