Masks won’t protect you from facial recognition

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Masks won't protect you from facial recognition

A Chinese facial recognition firm says it can now identify people wearing masks

A Chinese company says its facial recognition software can now identify people that are wearing masks to protect against the coronavirus.

Hanwang Technology used a sample database of around 6 million unmasked faces and a much smaller database of masked faces to create the system.

The Beijing-based firm, which also goes by the English name Hanvon, began to develop the tech in January, as people in China began donning face masks in their droves. The system was rolled out just one month later.

Hanwang Vice President Huang Lei says the system's recognition rate reached about 95% when people wore a mask - still some way below its regular success rate of 99.5%.

[Read: 7 best coronavirus dashboards to map the spread of COVID-19]

Huang told Reuters:

If connected to a temperature sensor, it can measure body temperature while identifying the person's name, and then the system would process the result, say



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