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Xinmei Shen

This article originally appeared on ABACUS
Police in the Chinese city of Hangzhou are using Alibaba’s City Brain platform to monitor traffic through a network of surveillance cameras, supported by AI and facial recognition technology.
The system runs on Alibaba Cloud and can even change traffic lights. They hope to take the system global, starting with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
(Abacus is a unit of the South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba.)
How China uses digital surveillance to track citizens on the road and beyond

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Alibaba’s cloud system helps Chinese police watch the roads with surveillance cameras

Alibaba’s cloud system helps Chinese police watch the roads with surveillance cameras

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}City Brain feeds on data from the government and facial recognition companies

City Brain feeds on data from the government and facial recognition companies