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China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

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Re: China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

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post #5

...says some company. Yeah right. The sensitivity/specificity requirements for this to be useful would be insanely difficult or impossible to reach.

The US government has had this forever. This is why they train you at the farm to put a pebble in your shoe if you’re trying to evade detection so your gait changes. It is most certainly not impossible.

Re: China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

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Top 10 technologies that sound scary when in an article starting with 'China'. I'm guessing one day we'll look back on these clickbaits and say they're racist.

They are scarier from China because they have a recent history of more authoritarian government control

Re: China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

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Top 10 technologies that sound scary when in an article starting with 'China'. I'm guessing one day we'll look back on these clickbaits and say they're racist.

In exactly what way is examining the authoritarian machinations of an authoritarian government 'racist'?

Re: China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

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post #2

This will cause people to start walking on the street in the same way as Fremen in Frank Herbert's Dune, by varying frequency and step length in order not to attract a (government) worm.

Since our internal random generator is not really random they probably will be able to detect your variations before you know yourself ...

Re: China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

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post #7

We should all start skipping in public instead of walking, because we're happy.

So.. happy..

> the kinds of questions that began to present themselves were just.. the questions themselves were ugly and I didn't want to know the answers. It's like banging on a door, you knock on a door, and the door opens slightly and behind that door it's dark and there's loud noises coming like there's wild animals in there or something. And you peer into the darknees and you can't see what's there but you can hear all this ugly stuff.. do you want to step into that room? No way, you just sorta back out quietly, pull the door shut behind you, and walk away from it.

-- Bill Ehrhart ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixOyiR8B-8 )

Re: China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

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post #17

Top 10 technologies that sound scary when in an article starting with 'China'. I'm guessing one day we'll look back on these clickbaits and say they're racist.

In exactly what way is examining the authoritarian machinations of an authoritarian government 'racist'?

The technology doesn't exist now, but one day we'll be able to equate the two

non-facetious: Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say 'Chinese government can now...'

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